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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
Natalie Townsend	Boute	FOTO01520	1904
Pope Leone XIII	De Federicis	FOTO02785	1904
Claudio P.Landi	Chadbourn	FOTO02755	1905
The Banda Bianca of San Severo	Bozetti, G.	FOTO02214	1906
Edoardo Mascheroni	A y E. F. dits Napoleon	FOTO02591	1906
Ester Ferrabini	Ogliari	FOTO03059	1906
Louis Bonade	Andreossi, M.	FOTO00379	1906
Senatore Sparapani	Borghese, Guglielmo	FOTO02726	1906
Trip to Como in occasion of 100 year anniversary of Casa Ricordi. From the left: Manolo, Luigi, Tito II, Giulio Ricordi with nephew Giulia, Signora Carla	Scaramella	FOTO03094	1908
Medea Figner	Pietzner, Carl	FOTO00449	1908