Galli-Curci – Historic Reproduction
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Galli-Curci. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Galli-Curci
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The record names the subject as Galli-Curci, which points to Amelita Galli-Curci, the Italian-born coloratura soprano who became one of the best-known singers of the 1920s after her American debut in Chicago and her Metropolitan Opera career beginning in 1921. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, made by a New York news photo service that supplied pictures to newspapers in the early twentieth century. The catalog notes that the identification comes from caption data that has not been independently verified, so the sitter's identity and the date should be read with that in mind. The glass negative format shows how press photographs of performers were made before film became standard.
| 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 five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,303 × 4,809 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-25046 |
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