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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
Giacomo Puccini, 1924	Badodi, Attilio	FOTO01438	1924
Door of the birthplace of Don Lorenzo Perosi in Tortona	Ginocchio	FOTO03280	1932
Il Dibuk, Act 1, stage photo	Crimella, Mario	FOTO01656	1934
I Vespri Siciliani, Act 3, Scene 2, Palermo, Teatro Massimo, 1937	Grassi, G.	FOTO01609	1937
The room Riccardo Zandonai in the Civic Library of Rovereto, 1939	Decarli	FOTO01313	1939
Roncole di Busseto: view	Ancillotti, Carlo	FOTO01354	1940
Bruno Bettinelli , portrait by Mario Bettinelli 1943	Mari, Gianni	FOTO01042	1943
Artists of 'Giuseppe Verdi' rest house in Milan on front of Verdi's grave.	Farabola	FOTO02521	1950
Ricordi store in Sao Paulo, Brasil (Rua Bocaiuva 106)	Foto George	FOTO02588	1950
Ricordi Store, Milan, Via Berchet, interior	Aragozzini, Vincenzo	FOTO02640	1950