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[Mrs. Elia Skalska, half length portrait, facing right. Art historian in the Polish Painting Division at the National Museum in Warsaw] – Historic Photograph Print

[Mrs. Elia Skalska, half length portrait, facing right. Art historian in the Polish Painting Division at the National Museum in Warsaw] — historic photograph
[Mrs. Elia Skalska, half length portrait, facing right. Art historian in the Polish Painting Division at the National Museum in Warsaw]. 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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[Mrs. Elia Skalska, half length portrait, facing right. Art historian in the Polish Painting Division at the National Museum in Warsaw]

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The sitter is identified as Mrs. Elia Skalska, an art historian in the Polish Painting Division of the National Museum in Warsaw, shown in half length and turned to the right. The photograph is credited to Eastfoto of New York City and dated February 1965, a time when Polish cultural institutions and their staff were largely cut off from Western studios. The original caption card also tags the image under women's employment, which points to the period's interest in professional women. The record is based on old, unverified caption data, so the occasion for the sitting and further details of her career are not documented here.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1965 Feb.
SubjectsPhoto by Eastfoto, N.Y.C. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. Index; Women--Employment; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,177 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134788

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