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[Albert Einstein, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / Doris Ulmann. – Vintage Wall Art

[Albert Einstein, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / Doris Ulmann., [1931] — historic photograph
[Albert Einstein, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / Doris Ulmann., [1931]. Historic photograph from the Work & Industry 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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A window into the past: [Albert Einstein, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / Doris Ulmann., preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Albert Einstein, half-length portrait, seated, facing right] / Doris Ulmann.

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The inscription on the mat sets this portrait apart. Einstein wrote it out for Mrs. Eugenie Meyer as a keepsake of her visit to Caputh, the village near Potsdam where he kept a summer home, on August 15, 1931. Doris Ulmann, an American photographer best known for her portraits of Appalachian residents and of writers and artists, made the platinum print, a process prized for its soft tonal range. The picture was later reproduced in *Eyes of the Nation*, a survey of American visual history.

Created / published[1931]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum.
GenrePortrait photographs 1930-1940.Platinum prints 1930-1940.
NotesInscribed on mat: Mrs. Eugenie Meyer zum Andenken an ihren Besuch in Caput [i.e. Caputh] am 15.VIII.31. Albert Einstein. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997, [p. 370, bottom left].
SubjectsEinstein, Albert,--1879-1955.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,143 × 1,447 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218782

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