Galli - Curci – Antique Print
(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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Galli - Curci comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Galli - Curci
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The name on this glass negative is Galli-Curci, most likely the Italian coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, who became one of the best-known singers of the early recording and radio era. The Bain News Service, the New York agency that made and captioned the negative, supplied news photographs to newspapers, and portraits of performers were a regular part of that work. The record gives no date, and its title comes from the agency's own caption cards, so the identification has not been independently confirmed. The plate is still a useful glimpse of how celebrity singers were pictured for the press in the years after 1910.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,334 × 4,853 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27230 |
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