Arnold D. Roth Photographs
Description of Contents
The collection consists of prints, acetate negatives, and glass-plate negatives of photographs taken by Arnold D. Roth in Minneapolis during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Principal subjects include downtown street scenes and businesses, houses, and Minnehaha Falls.
Dates
- Creation: Late 1800s-1930s
Creator
- Roth, Arnold (Person)
Access
The physical collection is available for use in Special Collections at Minneapolis Central Library during the department's open hours. Photographs from this collection are available in the Arnold D. Roth Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Biography
Arnold D. Roth (1863-1941) was a Minneapolis commercial photographer from the late 1800s to 1941. Roth specialized in real estate photography and railroad and streetcar claims. He was a member of the Ark lodge, Royal Arch Masons.
Extent
6 Linear Feet (14 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series by format: Print Photographs, Acetate Negatives, Glass-Plate Negatives. Images are numbered across the series. Numbers correspond to the identifier listed in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Other Guides
An inventory of the photographs in this collection is available. Contact Special Collections for more information.
Donor Information
This collection was donated by Harold E. Vanderwater in the late 1960s. They were managed by the library for many years and formally accessioned as accession 2019.10 in 2019.
Negatives
64 nitrate negatives were transferred to safety film by library staff in 1981. The nitrate originals were discarded.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Ted Hathaway in 2019.
Source
- Vanderwater, Harold E. (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Arnold D. Roth Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jenna Jacobs
- Date
- July 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Hennepin County Library Special Collections Repository
Minneapolis Central Library
300 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis MN 55401 U.S.A.
612-543-8200
specialcoll@hclib.org