# White Studio

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White Studio was an American [photographic agency](/source/Photographic_agency) active between 1903 and 1939 in [New York City](/source/New_York_City), best known for its photos of [Broadway productions](/source/Broadway_production) and performers.[1][2] It was founded by saloonkeeper Luther S. White, and operated a team of production photographers and a portrait studio on [Broadway](/source/Broadway_(Manhattan)). [3][4]

White Studio was dominant in production photography in the New York theater scene between 1905 and 1925, and specialized in panoramas of dress rehearsals and performances.[1] They photographed performers such as [Bessie McCoy](/source/Bessie_McCoy), [Aida Overton Walker](/source/Aida_Overton_Walker), and [Adele Astaire](/source/Adele_Astaire).

After the agency ceased operation, its archives were acquired by the Theater Collection of the [New York Public Library](/source/New_York_Public_Library),[1], which asserts that they document "more than 85% of all live performances of theater and vaudeville in New York".[4]

## References

1. ["Studios, White - Broadway Photographs"](https://broadway.library.sc.edu/content/studios-white.html). *broadway.library.sc.edu*. University of South Carolina. Retrieved 20 June 2025.

1. Zhang, Isabelle (19 July 2024). ["Aida Overton Walker & Sweet Petunias – Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective at Duke"](https://sites.duke.edu/rosetta/2024/07/05/aida-overton-walker-sweet-petunias/). *The Rosetta Reitz Archive Collective at Duke University*. Duke University. Retrieved 20 June 2025. White Studio was Broadway’s most prominent photo studio in the early twentieth century and had photographed Walker throughout the years.

1. ["White Studio"](https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/white-studio). *www.icp.org*. International Center of Photography. Retrieved 20 June 2025.

1. ["White Studio theatrical photographs - NYPL Digital Collections"](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34). *digitalcollections.nypl.org*. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250428064622/https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34) 28 April 2025 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 June 2025.

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