Snapshots of the Past

[Sir Ernest Rutherford, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Sir Ernest Rutherford, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left], [between 1920 and 1950] — historic print
[Sir Ernest Rutherford, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left], [between 1920 and 1950]. Historic print 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.)

Description

[Sir Ernest Rutherford, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.

[Sir Ernest Rutherford, head-and-shoulders portrait facing slightly left]

Order a print

Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal

Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.

Sign up for our newsletter

Sent securely. No purchase needed. Unsubscribe anytime.

Ask about licensing or this print

Shown in a head-and-shoulders view turned slightly to the left, this halftone portrait presents Sir Ernest Rutherford, the New Zealand-born physicist whose work revealed the atomic nucleus. His gold-foil experiments at Manchester around 1911 showed that an atom's mass and positive charge are concentrated in a tiny core, and in 1919 he became director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge. The halftone process, which broke a photograph into dots so it could be printed in newspapers and magazines, helped make portraits like this one a familiar way for the public to recognize scientists of his era.

Created / published[between 1920 and 1950]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenrePortraits 1920-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints 1920-1950.
SubjectsRutherford, Ernest,--1871-1937.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,512 × 4,096 px · prints to 12 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-213311

More from the Historic Print Archive collection

Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.

Related pictures

[Unidentified man, possibly William G. Mason, head and shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Unidentified man, possibly William G. Mason, head and shoulders portrait, facin[Sigmund Freud, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / R. Kastor.[Sigmund Freud, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left] / R. Kastor.[Christian Fleetwood, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Christian Fleetwood, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Sgt. Thomas Shaw, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Sgt. John S. or W.(?) Lawson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Sgt. John S. or W.(?) Lawson, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left[Elizabeth Montgomery, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left][Elizabeth Montgomery, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left]