"Cartier hologram" or "Hand In Jewels"
date: label: Date made
content: 1972
name: label: maker
content: Schinella, G. Robert
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Glass plate with holographic image of a woman's hand holding a string of jewels. Referred to as the "Cartier hologram" and also as "Hand In Jewels". According to curator Bernard Finn, "It is one of a very modest number in the "first generation" of sizable holograms and the first (as far as I know)
label: Description (Brief)
content: to be used in a commercial setting. This was "made in 1972 by G. Robert Schinella with a pioneering group at McDonnell Douglas. Schinella at one time worked with Dennis Gabor." A 1973 press report notes: "The newest and most exciting medium has made its debut with a display of Cartier gems suspended in mid-air over the sidewalk of Fifth Avenue in New York City. The S100,000 diamond ring and bracelet were suspended "visually" by means of a display of Laser photography — a process called Holography."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Marian B. Javits
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0691.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0691
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0691.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hologram
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 18 in x 2 in; 60.96 cm x 45.72 cm x 5.08 cm