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[Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, arrives in New York - Photo of Mme. Curie aboard S.S. Olympic at N.Y. Head, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, arrives in New York - Photo of Mme. Curie aboard S.S. Olympic at N.Y. Head, facing left] — historic photograph
[Mme. Curie, discoverer of radium, arrives in New York - Photo of Mme. Curie aboard S.S. Olympic at N.Y. Head, facing left]. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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Marie Curie, the physicist who discovered radium with her husband Pierre, is the subject here, shown in profile as she stepped off the S.S. Olympic in New York. Her 1921 arrival was the first of her two American tours, undertaken to raise money for radium research, and it drew enormous press attention. Crowds and reporters met her at the pier, and the visit helped secure a gram of radium for her laboratory in Paris, a gift from American donors.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1921 May 11.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,224 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-134320

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