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[Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Atelier Jaeger. – Vintage Wall Art

[Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Atelier Jaeger., Stockholm : Atelier Jaeger, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Atelier Jaeger., Stockholm : Atelier Jaeger, [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Step back in time with [Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Atelier Jaeger., a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Physics, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / Atelier Jaeger.

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Taken at the Atelier Jaeger studio in Stockholm between 1900 and 1910, this card portrait shows Nils Gustaf Dalén turned to his left, head and shoulders in view. It predates his 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for automatic regulators that let gas-lit lighthouses and buoys switch on and off without human attention. Cartes de visite like this small mounted print were a popular way to share a likeness across Europe from the 1860s onward. The sitter's name comes from the library's own cataloging rather than from the card itself.

Created / publishedStockholm : Atelier Jaeger, [between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Cartes de visite 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesTitle devised by Library staff. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.
SubjectsDalén, Nils Gustaf,--1869-1937.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan926 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156644

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