NYPL RADIUM (10)
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June 27, 2024
A series exploring the New York Public Library’s digital collection of radium-related ephemera.
A page from Loie Fuller’s 1911 lecture on radium. Fuller’s notebooks and letters, 1907–1911, are at the NYPL. Fuller (1862–1928), was an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques. She created a “Radium Dance” for the Broadway musical “Piff, Paff, Pouf.”
Here’s a 1904 review: “Loie Fuller is still up to date. She made a hit with her radium dance. Attired in an absolutely luminous gown, which by a secret and exceedingly clever mechanism flashes forth brilliant phosphorescent rays during her terpsichorean undulations.”
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