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[Performing Artists Photograph Collection], 1890-1976.
Title:
[Performing Artists Photograph Collection], 1890-1976.
Author:
Berry, Zorah, 1889-1969, collector.
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear feet (4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box) : photographs, portraits
Summary:
The collection is a chronicle of the performing artists that graced Buffalo stages from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth century. It contains black & white and sepia toned photos of musicians, singers, dancers, and actors that performed in Buffalo. Photo types include cartes de visite, cabinet cards, 8 x10 publicity shots, and modern headshots. Several later photos appear to have been used in press releases and articles. The dates on the photographs range from 1895-1976; the bulk is from 1900 to 1950.The bulk of the collection is comprised of photos personally collected by Marian De Forest, Mai Davis Smith, and Zorah Berry, circa 1900-1950. Others were donated to, or acquired by, the Buffalo Public Library and the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
General Note:
Title assigned by cataloger.
Language:
English
Contents:
Raquel Adonaylo -- Albeneri Trio -- Fracnes Alda -- Elsa Alsen -- Amadeus Quartet -- Pasquale Amato -- Jospehine Antoine -- Harold Arlen -- Rose Bampton -- John Barbirolli -- Barylli Quartet -- Harold Bauer -- Beaux Arts String Quartet -- Beaux Arts Trio of New York -- Joseoh Bentonelli -- Berkshire Quartet -- Berlin Philharmonic Octet -- Frank Black -- Coenraad Bos -- Alexander Brailowsky -- Vera Brodsky -- John Brownlee -- Budapest String Quartet -- Ferruccio Busoni -- Clara Butt -- Semyon Bychkov --(Maria) Teresa Carreno -- Pablo Casals -- Alfredo Casella -- Bruna Castagna -- Irene Castle -- Vernon Castle -- Lina Cavalieri -- Georgia Cayvan -- Eleonora de Cisneros -- Clarion Wind Quintet -- Cleveland Quartet -- Katharine Cornell --Leonora Corona -- Richard Crooks -- Julia Culp -- Harry Cumpson -- Walter Damrosch -- Jessie Bartlett Davis -- Marian De Forest -- De Reszke Singers -- Hugh Dillman -- Dorian Woodwind Quintet -- Eddy Duchin -- Isadora Duncan -- Emma Eames -- Nelson Eddy -- Joseph Eger -- Getrude Elliott -- Mischa Elman -- Georges Enesco -- Lehman Engel -- Geraldine Farrar -- Max Fiedler -- Fine Arts Quartet -- Kirsten Flagstad -- Flonzaley Quartet -- Zino Francescatti -- Ignaz Friedman -- Joseph Fuchs -- Ossip Gabrilowitsch -- Johanna Gadski -- Mabel Garrison -- Annunciata Garrotto -- Elena Gerhardt -- Walter Gieseking -- Lillian Gish -- Philip Glass -- Alma Gluck -- Leopold Godowsky -- Katharine Goodson -- Igor Gorin -- Guarneri String Quartet -- James K. Hackett -- Boris Hambourg -- George Hamlin -- Arnold Haskell -- Jascha Heifetz -- Victor Herbert -- Joseph Hofmann -- Arthur Honegger -- Vladimir Horowitz -- Julius Huehn -- Doris Humphrey -- Hungarian Quartet -- Ernest Hutcheson -- I Musici -- I Solisti Veneti -- Iowa String Quartet -- Jose Iturbi -- Frederick Jagel -- Helen Jepson -- Edward Johnson -- Hunter Johnson -- Maryla Jonas -- Julian Bream Consort -- Juliard String Quartet -- Anna Kaskas -- Hans Kindler -- Koeckert Quartet -- Tilly Koenen -- Alexander Koshetz -- Serge Koussevitsky -- Kroll Quartet -- Jan Kubelik -- Ernst Kunwald -- Frank La Forge -- Lillie Langtry -- Jaime Laredo -- Ruth Laredo -- Mischa Levitzki -- Lottie Lehmann -- Mary Lewis -- Josef Lhevinne -- Leroy A. Lincoln.
Julie [Lillie] Lindsay -- Catherine Littlefield -- Goeta Ljungberg -- Adelaide De Loca -- London String Quartet -- Zelie De Lussan -- David Blair McClosky -- John McCormack -- Francis MacMillen -- Gustav Mahler -- Guy Maier -- Alicia Markova -- Marlboro Trio -- Nino Martini -- Edith Mason -- William Masselos -- Dorothy Maynor -- Nellie Melba -- Yehudi Menuhin -- Angell J. Mercado -- Mercado's Tipica Mexican Orchestra -- Sally Milgrim -- Ivan Mestrovic -- Mitch Miller -- Walter Mills -- Mischa Mischakoff -- Dimitri Mitropoulos -- Lucy Monroe -- Pierre Monteux -- Michel Mordkin -- New Art Wind Quintet -- New York String Sextet -- New York Woodwind Quintet -- Ray Noble -- Guiomar Novaes -- Emil Oberhofer -- Helen Oelheim -- Seiji Ozawa -- Vladimir de Pachman -- Paganini Quartet -- Paris Chamber Orchestra -- Christopher Parkening -- Adalina Patti -- Lee Pattison -- Mona Paulee -- Anna Pavlova -- Frances Perkins -- Enzio Pinza -- Lily Pons -- Pro Musica [New York] -- Quartetto Italiano -- Serge Rachmaninoff -- Marjorie Rambeau -- Jean-Pierre Rampal -- Robert Veyron-Lacroix -- Maurice Ravel -- Fritz Reiner -- Hortense Rhea -- Gisela M.A. Richter -- Rudolph Ringwall -- Stuart Robson -- Artur Rodzinski -- Lisa Roma -- Leonard Rose -- Anton G. Rubinstein -- Artur Rubinstein -- Kennerly Rumford -- Sol Smith Russell, Sol Smith -- Thalia Sabanieeva -- Florence R. Sabin -- Camille Saint-Saens -- Felix Salmond -- Olga Samaroff -- Ernest Schelling -- Artur Schnabel -- Edwin Schneider -- Ernestine Schumann-Heink -- Joseph Schuster -- Anton Seidl -- Marcella Sembrich -- Senorita [Sarita] Sanchez -- Rudolf Serkin -- Ted Shawn & His Men Dancers -- Norma Shearer -- Leonard Shure -- Mia Slavenska -- Ruth Slenszynski -- Nikolai Sokoloff -- Virginia Laura Sothern -- John Phillip Sousa -- Alice Sovereign -- Eleanor Steber -- Frederick Stock -- Leopold Stokowski -- Grete Stueckgold -- Jeno Swislowski -- Robert Sylvester -- Joseph Szigetti -- Richard Tauber -- Warren Lee Terry -- Maggie Teyte -- Blanche Thebom -- John Charles Thomas -- Lawrence Tibbet -- Tokyo String Quartet -- Arturo Toscanini -- Helen Traubel -- Harold Triggs -- Trio Di Bolzano -- Trio Italiano D'Archi -- Ukranian National Chorus -- Elisabeth Van Endert -- Vermeer Quartet -- Vienna Octet -- Charles Wagner -- Blanche Walsh -- David Warfield -- Reinhold Von Warlich -- Warsaw Quintet -- Roslyn Weisberg -- Reinald Werrenrath -- Paul Whiteman -- Edward Willard -- Ralph Vaughan William -- John Finley Williamson -- Herbert Witherspoon -- Ludwig Wullner -- Igor Youskevitch -- Eugene Ysaye -- Harry Zaratzion.
Dusolina Giannini -- Lansing Hatfield -- Myra Hess -- José Iturbi -- Oscar Levant -- Pompilio Malatesta -- Giovanni Martinelli -- Guiomar Novaes -- Eugene Ormandy -- Ruth Slenczynska -- Rise Stevens -- 2 unidentified males.
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