Galli - Curci & Wagner – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Galli - Curci & Wagner. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Galli - Curci & Wagner
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Unlike the single-sitter portraits that fill much of the Bain collection, this glass negative pairs the soprano Amelita Galli-Curci with a man named Wagner, though the record does not say who he was or where the sitting took place. Galli-Curci, an Italian-born coloratura, became one of the most photographed concert singers in America after her U.S. debut in 1916. The Bain News Service, run by George Grantham Bain in New York, supplied newspapers with photographs like this one on deadline, so its negatives document early twentieth-century celebrity. The title comes from caption information the agency recorded and has not been verified, so the identifications are worth treating with some care.
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,960 × 3,409 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28284 |
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