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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
Gustavo Wieselberger	Sebastianutti & Benque	FOTO03113	1879
Edouard Bauwens	Ganz, Julian	FOTO02314	1880
Giovanni Frojo	Scarpino, Domenico	FOTO03098	1880
Edouard Cazaneuve	Chambay	FOTO01004	1880
Matilda Florella Hillingworth	Cookes, W.	FOTO02766	1880
Oreste Carlini	Van Lint, Enrico	FOTO03142	1883
Johann Jacob Hardmeyer-Jenny	Guler, Romedo	FOTO02911	1883
Xavier Van Elewyck	Morren, Prosper	FOTO02970	1884
Vittorina Bartolucci	Studio Ariostea	FOTO02303	1885
Man portrait	Angiolini, F.lli	FOTO02407	1890