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Hedda Gabler / Byron N.Y. – Historic Print

Hedda Gabler / Byron N.Y., [1914] — historic photograph
Hedda Gabler / Byron N.Y., [1914]. Historic photograph from the Valentine's Day 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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This rare historic photograph captures Hedda Gabler / Byron N.Y. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Hedda Gabler / Byron N.Y.

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Minnie Maddern Fiske is the subject here, pictured in her role as Hedda Gabler, the restless heroine of Henrik Ibsen's 1890 drama, whose boredom and cruelty drive the play toward its grim close. Fiske was one of the most admired American actresses of her era, and her willingness to take on Ibsen at a time when his work was still unfamiliar to many American audiences helped introduce his plays to New York. The portrait was made by the Byron studio in New York, which produced a large body of theatrical photographs in the early twentieth century, and it survives as a silver printing-out print, a process common for studio work of the 1910s.

Created / published[1914]
Medium1 photographic print : silver printing-out paper.
GenreSilver printing-out paper prints 1910-1920.
NotesIn album: Mary of Magdala, Hedda Gabler. On album page: L1883-1H. No. 18817. 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.
SubjectsFiske, Minnie Maddern,--1865-1932--Performances.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,456 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218564

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