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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
Edith De Lys in the role of Tosca, Act 2	Dover Street Studios, The	FOTO00373	1909
Italo Montemezzi	Valdemaro, C.	FOTO01487	1910
Irma Timroth in the role of Butterfly	Gerola, Edoardo	FOTO01506	1910
Prince of Prussia Joachim	Noack, H.	FOTO02051	1910
Band of 89th infantry regiment of Genoa, 1910	Svicher, Alfredo	FOTO02216	1910
Mary Stein Baroni	Miniati, Bruno	FOTO02295	1910
Hugo Becker	Wolff, Marta	FOTO02325	1910
Sem Benelli	Badodi, Attilio	FOTO02431	1910
Domenico Alaleona	Elpidi, Settimo	FOTO02500	1910
Antonio Guarnieri	Antonelli Matteucci, Liborio	FOTO02637	1910