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Rubinstein [seated on couch, reading] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/49159072472/

• swanq said:

  This photograph of Erna Rubinstein reading the graphic section of a newspaper was published on page 19 of The Musician, July 1922, illustrating a piece credited to Erna Rubinstein with the title "A fiddler who never knew stagefright." The photo in The Musician is credited to Bain News Service. See books.google.com/books?id=AWBJAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA19&am... According to The New York Herald. January 29, 1922, SECTION THREE, Page 6, column 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1922-01-29/ed-... her first concert in the U.S. was at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday February 3rd, 1922. Thus it seems likely that this Bain photoshoot was in 1922.

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks swanq for tracking down the publication she's reading as well as when her first US concert was. I think you've established these photos were taken in 1922 so we'll change the date in the catalog record.

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  I looked closer at the newspaper in the photo and recognized the image at the top of the page. It's a photo of the Knickerbocker Theater in DC after the roof collapsed on January 28, 1922. We have National Photo Co. negative taken from the same angle at www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.05700/. Some newspapers didn't run a full photo page until Sunday, but this confirms it was probably taken around the time of her first US concert.