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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) and Elsa EINSTEIN. Photograph inscribed and signed by both ("Albert Einstein" and "Elsa Einstein"), n.p. [Pasadena, California], by Sam Little of Hollywood (imprint in negative at bottom right), dated by Elsa in bottom margin "November 31," and on verso "February 1931."
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955) and Elsa EINSTEIN. Photograph inscribed and signed by both ("Albert Einstein" and "Elsa Einstein"), n.p. [Pasadena, California], by Sam Little of Hollywood (imprint in negative at bottom right), dated by Elsa in bottom margin "November 31," and on verso "February 1931." 8 x 10 in., dark sepia toned. Inscribed in blue ink in the white part of the sky. EINSTEIN IN PASADENA, 1931, HIS FIRST RESIDENCE IN THE U.S.. A seldom seen image of the physicist with his wife standing in the yard of their temporary residence in Pasadena. Both inscriptions are in German. Einstein writes: "Albert Einstein Niemand wandelt ungestraft unter Pfefferbaeumen." ("Nobody strolls unpunished under Pepper trees"). To the left, Elsa writes: "Unseren lieben [Our dear friend] Freundin Uscha (?) Elsa Einstein." Einstein, standing under a Japanese pepper tree, is playfully adapting the lines from Goethe's Wahlverwandschaften: Niemand wandelt ungestraft unter Palmen ("Nobody strolls unpunished under Palm Trees"). Through fellow scientist Robert Millikan, Einstein had been invited to teach at California Institue of Technology in Pasadena during the Fall term. During this visit he lectured on the concept of the curvature of space.