Photograph
"George Spelvin"
| U.W. Ph.D student and actor, who wished to remain anonymous and so went by the name George Spelvin, in stage productions. |
| Image ID: | 66962 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 22 1950 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6442.3535 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4 x 5 inches |
| Published in Wisconsin State Journal August 27, 1950 "Spelvin" was working on his thesis Isolation of a Bacteriophage Against Some of the Root-Nodule Organisms and his professor objected to his appearance in stage performances fearing it would interfere with his research, hence the use of a pseudonym. Per research by David Null at U.W. Archives, the student was Felix E. Wasserman. He got his undergrad at UW-Madison in 1949 in agricultural bacteriology (he's only in the directories from his sophomore year on, so that's consistent with the one year at Vermont from the Wisconsin State Journal article), and his MS in the same subject in 1950. Wassermann went on to become a doctor of Microbiology and Immunology at New York Medical College, so I guess the acting didn't hurt. |
| University of Wisconsin |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Portrait photography |
| Smoking |
| Actors |
| Suits (Clothing) |
| College students |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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