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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
Carmen Bonaplata	Strazza, Antonio	FOTO00141	1890
Adele Borghi in the role of Carmen	Franceschinis, Giuseppe	FOTO00155	1890
Federico Carbonetti	Pagliano & Ricordi	FOTO00199	1890
Tommaso Bianco	Nadar, Félix	FOTO00258	1890
Compagnia Lillipuziana directed by Prof. E. Guerra	Casalboni, Augusto	FOTO00294	1890
Emma Eames	Mendelssohns Studios	FOTO02037	1891
Maria Stuarda Savelli	Woodbury & Page	FOTO00995	1891
Maria Vittoria Domenici in the role of Leonora	De Louwl, Henri	FOTO00393	1892
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