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Portrait photo of Macbeth - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Braslau - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia)

Gogorza and Eames, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Emilio de Gogorza (1872-1949), a baritone singer with his wife, singer Emma Eames (1865-1952). (Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Form... More

Braslau - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A. Scotti, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Antonio Scotti (1866-1936) an Italian baritone opera singer who appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera for more than thirty three seasons. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Title from... More

Titta Ruffo - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Titta Ruffo (1877-1953), who was born Ruffo Titta Cafiero. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Ober as Amneris, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971) as Amneris in Giuseppe Verdi's Aida. Arndt-Ober performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. (Source: Flickr ... More

Mme. Nordica, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows American opera singer Lillian Nordica (1858-1914). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Colle... More

Farrar as "Carmen" - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967), an American soprano opera singer and film actress. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano singer and silent film actress of ... More

Johannes Sembach at piano - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German opera singer Johannes Sembach (1881-1944), seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

Caruso, Easter Parade, 32313 - Public domain portrait photograph

Photo shows opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) on Easter day, March 23, 1913, New York City. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title and date from data provided by the Ba... More

Mme. Ober - Public domain scan / photograph

Photo shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971) in a kitchen. Arndt-Ober performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Julia Culp - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Julia Bertha Culp (1880-1970), internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano opera singer in the years 1901-1919. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

A. Didur - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Adam Didur (1873-1946), a Polish bass opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

G. Martinelli & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) and his wife, Adele Previtali. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Claudia Muzio - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Claudia Muzio (1889-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

L. Rothier - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows French opera singer Léon Rothier (1874-1951) who sang with New York's Metropolitan Opera. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Sophie Braslau - Public domain dedication image

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive His... More

Anna Fitziu, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Anna Fitziu (1887-1967), an American soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Caruso & J. Speck - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) with Jules Speck, the Metropolitan Opera stage manager for French and Italian operas. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

H. Witherspoon & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows bass opera singer and manager Herbert Witherspoon (1873-1935) with his wife, soprano opera singer Florence Hinkle (1885-1933). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by... More

Macbeth, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of ... More

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963) seated at a desk. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negativ... More

Geraldine Farrar as "Carmen" for "Movies"

Photograph shows Cecil B. deMille(?) gesturing to opera singer Geraldine Farrar on the set of the 1915 motion picture, "Carmen." (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Geraldine Farrar, an American soprano sin... More

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from simi... More

Ocean liners: Barrientos - Public domain ocean liner image

Photograph shows Spanish soprano opera singer Maria Barrientos (1883-1946) on board the Swedish liner Saga, bound for South America. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Poster: Victor Frances Alda sings a simple heart-touching song "I pass...

Photograph shows opera singer Frances Alda (1879-1952). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Gall, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Yvonne Gall (1885-1972), a French soprano opera singer standing on a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from s... More

Homer, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows the family of composer Sidney Homer (1864-1953) and his wife, contralto opera singer Louise Dilworth Homer (1871-1947), with bicycles. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data pro... More

Scotney, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Evelyn Scotney (1896-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection... More

Ganna Walska meets President Coolidge. Ganna Walska the opera singer w...

A woman standing on the steps of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line. Gift; Harris &... More

Jauner-Krall, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows Austrian opera singer Emilie Jauner-Krall, in costume, seated, three-quarter length portrait, facing right. No. 1439. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference cop... More

Portrait photo of Mallinger, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows Mathilda Mallinger, Austrian opera singer, in costume, three-quarter length portrait, facing front. No. 1106. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

Illingworth, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Australian baritone singer Nelson Charles Illingworth (1885-1957). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

Macbeth - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

O. Harrold in "Faust" - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows musical theater and opera singer Orville Harrold (1878-1933). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Gra... More

Raymonde Delaunois - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Raymonde Delaunois (1885-1984), a Belgian mezzo-soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Dorothea A. MacVane - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows opera singer Dorothea Alastair MacVane (b. 1884). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Antonio Scotti - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows Italian opera singer Antonio Scotti (1866-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, Oct, 29, 1912)

Antonio Scotti, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Italian opera singer Antonio Scotti (1866-1936). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, Oct, 29, 1912) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms par... More

Bettine Freeman - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows opera singer Bettina Freeman in a performance of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Johanna Gadski - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Ocean liners: Geraldine Farrar - Public domain photograph, glass negat...

Photo shows opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II heading to Europe. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008 and New York Times, May 30, 1913) Geraldine Farrar, an American sopra... More

Mme. Louise Homer and children - Public domain photograph, glass negat...

Photograph shows opera singer Louise Beatty Homer (1871-1947) with her children. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Chas. Dalmores - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows French opera singer Charles Dalmorès (1871-1939), (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Mme. Gadski & "Brunhilde" - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) holding a "Brunhilde" doll. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Julia Culp - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph Julia Bertha Culp, a celebrated mezzo-soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Sophie Braslau - Public domain dedication image

Photo shows opera singer Sophie Braslau (1902-1935), a contralto who performed with the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, playing piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and Jewish Women: A Comprehensive ... More

Martinelli & family - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) with his wife Adele Previtali (d. 1980) and daughter Bettina (b. 1915). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Gigli & wife -- D'E Curtiss i.e. De Curtis & wife

Photograph shows Benjamin Gigli (1890-1957), an Italian tenor opera singer with his wife, Costanza Cerron and composer Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937) in Venice, Italy. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Tit... More

Julia Culp - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Julia Bertha Culp (1880-1970), internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano opera singer in the years 1901-1919. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Mme. Louise Homer and twins -- Sept. 1915

Photograph shows opera singer Louise Beatty Homer (1871-1947) with her daughters Anne (Homer) Doerflinger (1907-1995) and Katherine (Homer) Fryer (1907-1997). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Olive Fremstad - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Swedish-American opera singer Anna Olivia Rundquist (stage name, Olive Fremstad) (1871-1951), seated at a piano. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci, George Grantham Bain Collection

Bouilliez & Weldon - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows Belgian baritone opera singer Auguste Bouilliez and American basso opera singer Henry Weldon. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

George Siemonn, Mabel Garrison - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows American coloratura soprano opera singer Mabel Garrison Siemonn (1886-1963) who performed at the Metropolitan Opera (1914-1921) with her husband professor George Siemonn. (Source: Flickr Common... More

Farrar, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows soprano opera singer and film actress, Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geo... More

Fernando Carpi & wife, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian tenor opera singer Fernando Carpi (1876-1959) with his wife, arriving in New York City on board the French liner Espagne from Florence via Bordeaux. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 201... More

Mabel Garrison - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows soprano opera singer Mabel Garrison Siemonn (1886-1963), digging a spade into the ground at a demonstration garden next to the U.S.S. Recruit, a wooden mockup of a battleship built in Union Sq... More

Margaret Crawford, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows American contralto opera singer Margaret Crawford in costume. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: G... More

Alma Gluck - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows opera singer Alma Gluck (1884-1938), seated at a desk.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Amato & Mrs. F.C. Coppicus - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Mrs. Francis Charles Coppicus, wife of the general secretary of the Metropolitan Opera and Italian opera singer Pasquale Amato (1878-1942) who is seated at a desk with war bonds for World War I... More

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Gloria Caruso, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Gloria Caruso (1919-1999), the daughter of Italian tenor opera singer Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) and his wife, the former Miss Dorothy Park Benjamin (1893-1955). (Source: Flickr Commons project,... More

Matzenaner, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Margarete Matzenauer (1881-1963), probably with her daughter Adrienne Matzenauer (Fontana) (1914-2010). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title and date from data provided by ... More

Stone entrance, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows a door with stone arch entryway in country home of opera singer Orville Harrold (1878-1933), possibly near Darien, Connecticut. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2019) Title from data provided b... More

Nielsen, portrait, three quarter length portrait

Photograph shows Swedish opera singer Christine Nilsson, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing right. No. 1111. Stamped on verso: Gift, Virginia S. Benjamin, Feb. 12, 1946. Reference copy in BIOG FILE.

T.V. O'Connor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian baritone opera singer Giuseppe Danise (1883-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Granth... More

Ponselle in "William Tell" - Public domain portrait print

Photograph shows opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) in costume for the opera William Tell. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (... More

Harrold and father, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows musical theater and opera singer Orville Harrold (1878-1933) with his father, and a dog dressed in a military uniform. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title from data provided by the Bai... More

Macbeth - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows opera singer Florence Macbeth (1891-1966). Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Early automobiles - Werrenrath - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows opera singer Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) with automobile and others. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Chalmers, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Thomas Hardie Chalmers (1884-1966), American opera singer, actor, and filmmaker. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms ... More

[Victor Poster : Sophie Braslau]

Gogorza, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Emilio de Gogorza (1872-1949), a baritone singer. (Flickr Commons project, 2016) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham B... More

Hempel & Schumann Heink, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer Frieda Hempel (1885-1955) with German Bohemian American Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who was a contralto opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data pr... More

Beatrice La Palme - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows Canadian opera singer Beatrice La Palme (1878-1921). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Melanie Kurt, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German soprano opera singer Melanie Kurt (1880-1941), who debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in 1915. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service o... More

Mme. Ober - Public domain portrait print

Photo shows American opera singer Margarethe Arndt-Ober (1885-1971). Arndt-Ober performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1913 and 1917. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Evelyn Parnell - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photo shows Evelyn Parnell, an American soprano opera singer. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Amato as "Cyrano", George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo probably shows Italian opera singer Pasquale Amato (1878-1942) who sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 until 1921. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008) Title from data provided by the Bain News S... More

Sophie Braslau - Public domain portrait photograph

Johannes Sembach, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows German opera singer and tenor Johannes Sembach (1881-1944). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grant... More

John Brown and Caruso - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows John Brown, Business Comptroller of the Metropolitan Opera in New York with opera singer Enrico Caruso. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)

Harrold, George Grantham Bain Collection

Ponselle, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) reclining on a sofa. Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congres... More

May Peterson, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph show opera singer May Esther Peterson Thompson (1880-1952) who sang for the Metropolitan Opera Company. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the... More

Italian opera singer Galli-Curci

Photograph shows Italian coloratura soprano opera singer Amelita Galli-Curci (1882-1963). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Tetrazzini, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Luisa Tetrazzini (1871-1940) with motion picture camera. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Ge... More

C. Whitehill - Public domain photograph, glass negative

Photograph shows American bass/baritone opera singer Clarence Whitehill (1871-1932). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Martinelli, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: George Grantham Ba... More

L. Botta - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows Italian opera singer Luca Botta (1882-1917) with a guitar. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Gluck & Zimbalist, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (1889 or 1890-1985) an internationally known concert violinist, composer, teacher, conductor, and director of the Curtis Institute of Music with his wife, Romanian-American... More

Gadski & daughter - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows German opera singer Johanna Gadski (1872-1932) with her daughter. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Werrenrath, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows opera singer Reinald Werrenrath (1883-1953) seated in front of a fireplace. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part ... More

C. Whitehill & wife - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows American bass/baritone opera singer Clarence Whitehill (1871-1932) with his wife Isabel Rush. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)

Mme. Matzenauer - Public domain portrait photograph

Photograph shows Margaret Matzenauer (Margarete Matzenauer or Margarethe Matzenaur) (1881-1963), a mezzo-soprano opera singer with her daughter Adrienne. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

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