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Description: Glass negatives of opera singers, conductors, composers, instrument makers, and musical sites created and arranged by the Music Division. Positives are available within the Music Division's iconography files.
Names: Alda, Frances (Depicted); Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Depicted); Muzio, Claudia (Depicted); Tibbett, Lawrence (Depicted); Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957 (Depicted); Mishkin Studio (New York, N.Y.) (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1900 - 1930 (Approximate)
Library locations: Music Division; Shelf locator: JOB 21-03
Topics: Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.); Composers; Conductors (Music); Opera -- Photographs; Sopranos (Singers)
Genres: Photographs
Notes: Content: The Music Division's glass negatives contain images of opera singers, conductors, composers, instrument makers, and some musical sites such as Haydn's birthplace. The bulk of the collection consists of pre-1930 Herman Mishkin studio portraits of singers in their opera roles from the Metropolitan Opera. They include Frances Alda, Lawrence Tibbet, Raymonde Delaunois, Florence Easton, Umberto Macnez, Jeanne Maubourg, Claudia Muzio, Herbert Witherspoon, and more. Opera roles found in the collection include productions of Aida, Faust, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Carmen, Mireille, Il trovatore, Les Huguenots, and more.
Physical Description: Extent: 27.93 linear feet (34 boxes); Glass negatives
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: JOB 21-03; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b23242298; MSS Unit ID: 30064; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a01cab20-000a-013d-6331-0242ac110002

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