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Collection of Mounted Photographs - Classical Music Subjects - Primarily Austrian & German, ca. 1928-1938 - Snapshots & commercial photo portraits, many taken & assembled in connection with the Salzburg Festival of 1936. Includes photos signed by Arturo Toscanini, Emanuel List, Johanna Cadski, Charles Kullman, Elsa Alsen, Eugene Ormandy. The collection also includes 5 photos of Marian Anderson - 3 6 1/4 x 4 3/4 close-up portraits; 1 with a group of others attending Salzburg in 1936; 1 in recital at Salzburg, inscribed & signed by Anderson - signature almost completely obscured in dark corner of photo.
This now broken album of several hundred photos was likely assembled by the American opera signer Christopher Hayes.