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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
Giovanni Vizzani	Lombardi	FOTO02963	1872
Man portrait	Raimondi, B.	FOTO02409	1873
José Inzenga	Alviach y Compañía	FOTO02630	1876
Armand Castelmary in te role of Padre Guardiano	Bendelli, Germano	FOTO02686	1876
Luigi Cabrini on deathbed	Devèze	FOTO02809	1876
Hidalgo	Downey	FOTO02824	1876
Luigi Moroni	Felici, Giuseppe	FOTO02840	1877
Gustavo Wieselberger	Sebastianutti & Benque	FOTO03113	1879
Rosina Giovannoni Zacchi	Sambo, Emilio	FOTO03091	1880
Giovanni Frojo	Scarpino, Domenico	FOTO03098	1880