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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
Hidalgo	Downey	FOTO02824	1876
Robert K [?]	Festge, Karl	FOTO02843	1876
Arthur Napoléon	Pacheco, Joaquim José	FOTO03047	1877
Alfredo Oriani, 25 years old	Sorgato, Angelo	FOTO03122	1877
Luigi Moroni	Felici, Giuseppe	FOTO02840	1877
Maria Fangen	Mischewski, Bernhard	FOTO03006	1878
Gustavo Wieselberger	Sebastianutti & Benque	FOTO03113	1879
Giuseppe Cerquetelli	Angelici, Vittorio	FOTO01484	1880
Ambroise Thomas	Petit, Pierre	FOTO01505	1880
Women in traditional costumes	Daziaro, J.	FOTO02020	1880