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"Representing electricity, she holds a magnet to catch wireless flashes..."
Detail from architectural sculpture entitled "Commerce", by DC French, circa 1912, Federal Building, Cleveland Ohio.
Indeed, a magnet no less!! ...suppose that wireless was a fanciful notion in 1912 or thereabouts.
Detail from Commerce sculpture outside Federal Building, Cleveland. By DC French, circa 1912. Daniel Chester French was a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Probably his most famous piece that anyone might recognize is the statue of Lincoln seated, in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
Source and more info at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chester_French
Perhaps she just got ahold of an errant wireless flash?! ...
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