Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Bertha
1960s
Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
Bertha - Santa Monica, California, 1960's Joe Schwartz, Folk Photography: Poems I've Never Written (2000), 163. A black-and-white photograph of woman (presumedly Bertha) standing in the doorway of the "House of 'Bertha.'" The business offers card reading, tea reading, palm reading, and psychoanalysis.
- Catalog date
- 1960s
- Recorded places
- Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Amusements; Photography; Urban life
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2010.74.126
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection