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Auguste Lumiere

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Auguste Lumiere

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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Inventor of photographic equipment, along with his brother, Louis Jean. In 1893 they developed a cine camera, the cinématographe, and showed the first motion pictures using film projection in 1895. They also invented the Autochrome screen plate for colour photography in 1903. TLS in French, signed “Lumiere,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, Laboratoires Lumiere letterhead, February 7, 1944. Letter to Dr. Gerard de Lacaze Duthiers. In part (translated): “I received the issue of ‘Passe Partout’… with your very nice article on the work of my late collaborator Dr. Paul Vigne…I won’t fail to send you my new work on Tuberculosis as soon as it appears.” Central horizontal and vertical fold, a few trivial ink marks, and some light wrinkling and creasing, otherwise fine condition.