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Photographs

Collection

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

On focus

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
Maria Stuarda Savelli	Woodbury & Page	FOTO00995	1891
Daria Farini	London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, The	FOTO00419	1892
Giuseppe Verdi outside the Giulio Ricordi's house in Via Borgonuovo, Milan.	Ferrario, Achille	FOTO01146	1892
Giovanni Zucchini	Bertocchi, Annibale	FOTO02712	1893
Captain Pier Emilio Bosi, in uniform	Stender, A.	FOTO00618	1895
Ida Mazzoleni	Mauri, Achille	FOTO00698	1895
Giannina Galli	Muggia, Achille	FOTO00484	1896
Lina Peri De Stefani	Forlivesi, V.	FOTO02839	1896
Fernando De Lucia	Marvuglia, Francesco	FOTO02619	1897
Cesare Stiattesi	Stoppani, S.	FOTO03126	1899