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Posted on: July 1, 2008 5:34 AM, by Chad Orzel
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# 1 | CCPhysicist | July 1, 2008 4:52 PM
I'd just like to know the story behind that circa 1930 picture from Getty Images. Searching the Getty Images archive says it was taken on 30 Dec 1930 during a Christmas Tyndall Lecture, but why is the guy in blackface? Those were the days....