Mme Curie – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Mme Curie comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Mme Curie
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Marie Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel, is the subject of this glass negative, though the record gives no date and its title is only an unverified label supplied by the Bain News Service. The Bain company was a Manhattan press agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, so the image was likely made for quick publication rather than as a studied portrait. Curie's 1921 visit to the United States, when American women raised funds to buy her a gram of radium, drew wide press coverage, and images like this one document how the public came to know her.
| 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 seven loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,316 × 6,314 px · prints to 14 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-33520 |
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