Galli - Curci – Antique Wall Art
(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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The record spells the sitter's name "Galli - Curci," the hyphenated form of Amelita Galli-Curci, the Milan-born coloratura soprano who became one of the most celebrated singers of the 1910s and 1920s. She performed widely in the United States, sang with the Chicago Opera and then the Metropolitan Opera, and built a large following through her phonograph recordings. The Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with photographs, took many portraits of performers, and this glass negative is one example of how such studio work recorded the stage personalities of the era. The date is not recorded, and the caption is unverified.
| 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 | 3,378 × 4,915 px · prints to 11 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-28278 |
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