Galli - Curci – Historic Print
(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: Galli - Curci, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Galli - Curci
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Amelita Galli-Curci, the Italian coloratori soprano named in this record, was one of the most recognized singers of the 1920s, with a long run at the Metropolitan Opera and a large following through concert tours and phonograph recordings. The picture comes from the Bain News Service, a New York agency that sold news photographs to newspapers from the early 1900s into the 1920s, so it likely served a press or publicity need. The record does not give a date, and its title comes from unverified caption data, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Still, the glass negative format points to the period when such studio and press portraits were common.
| 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 | 3,321 × 4,928 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28273 |
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