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[Cala Eric, Ziegfeld girl, half-length portrait, left profile, wearing low-cut gown] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Cala Eric, Ziegfeld girl, half-length portrait, left profile, wearing low-cut gown], [between ca. 1918 and 1939] — historic photograph
[Cala Eric, Ziegfeld girl, half-length portrait, left profile, wearing low-cut gown], [between ca. 1918 and 1939]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Cala Eric, Ziegfeld girl, half-length portrait, left profile, wearing low-cut gown] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Cala Eric is identified here as a Ziegfeld girl, one of the performers in Florenz Ziegfeld's stage revues, most famously the Ziegfeld Follies, which ran in New York from 1907 into the early 1930s. This half-length portrait shows her in left profile wearing a low-cut gown, a pose and wardrobe well suited to the studio publicity photographs made for such performers. Pictures like this one circulated to promote shows and build a performer's public image, and the careful lighting and posed elegance reflect the period's emphasis on theatrical glamour. Details of the sitting and the sitter's career are not given here.

Created / published[between ca. 1918 and 1939]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1910-1940.Photographic prints 1910-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,115 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-163351

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