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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
Agnes Reus Balley [?] in stage costume	De Vernay	FOTO02403	1866
Frederick-Samuel Feitlinger in stage costume	Le Blondel, A.	FOTO02946	1868
Carpenter	Gobbi, Bernardo	FOTO02398	1870
Italo Campanini in the role of Lohengrin	Mora, José Maria	FOTO03009	1873
Angèle in stage costume	Nadar, Félix	FOTO02233	1875
Armand Castelmary in te role of Padre Guardiano	Bendelli, Germano	FOTO02686	1876
Zulma Bouffard in La Camargo by Charles Lecocq	Nadar, Félix	FOTO00648	1878
Raphael Colombel and his wife in stage costume	Photo Comp.ie Franco Belge	FOTO03216	1880
Jules Devoyod in the role of Scindia	Bergamasco, Ch.	FOTO00388	1880
Elena Teodorini in stage costume	Debas, Edgardo	FOTO01024	1880