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Iconography, 1885-1992 (continued)
Photographs of SR's Family Members (continued)
BOX 64 SR's Parents
BOX-FOLDER 64/38 Vasiliĭ Arkad'evich Rakhmaninov (SR's father; on left) and his brother Aleksandr Arkad'evich Rakhmaninov (SR's uncle; on right)
2 prints: print "A," 15.9 x 10.9 cm. ; print "B," 15.5 x 10.9 cm.
Verso of both prints also bear the stamp of the photographer Émile Marcovitch.
BOX-FOLDER 64/39 Vasiliĭ Arkad'evich Rakhmaninov (SR's father) (same photograph as in 64/38, but SR's uncle has been omitted)
Matted print, 15.4 x 10.1 cm. (24.2 x 19.0 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 64/40 Liubov' Petrovna Rakhmaninova (SR's mother) holding an infant
8.8 x 6.0 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/41 Liubov' Petrovna Rakhmaninova (SR's mother) holding an infant (3 reproductions of the original print contained in folder 64/40)
Print "A," 9.0 x 6.2 cm.; Print "B," 8.0 x 6.2 cm. ; Print "C," 8.8 x 6.0 cm.
Print "B" bears an inscription that reads "S.R. mother / with one of / her sons."
Print "C" verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin, speculating that the infant depicted in this photograph may be SR or his brother Volodia.
BOX-FOLDER 64/42 Liubov' Petrovna Rakhmaninova (SR's mother) holding an infant (2 reproductions of the same prints contained in folders 64/40-41)
Print "A," 17.0 x 12.0 cm. ; Print "B," 8.8 x 5.9 cm. (16.2 x 12 cm. with mat)
Print "A" verso bears an inscription, by Sophie Satin, that reads "Grandmother / Liubov' Petrovna / Rakhmaninova / with Serezha [i.e., SR] or / Volodia [i.e., SR's brother Vladimir]."
Print "B" verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin, that reads "R-ff's mother / with Sergei."
BOX-FOLDER 64/43 Liubov' Petrovna Rakhmaninova (SR's mother) (2 reproductions based on the prints contained in folders 64/40-41, but focused only on Liubov' herself)(infant's image has been removed)
Print "A" (unmatted print) 15.8 x 10.6 cm. ; Print "B," 15.4 x 10.0 cm. (24.2 x 19.0 cm. with mat)
Print "B" verso bears inscriptions identifying the photograph's subject, the first inscription by Sophie Satin. The verso also bears the stamp of the photographer Émile Marcovitch.
BOX-FOLDER 64/44 Liubov' Petrovna Rakhmaninova (SR's mother; on left) and Mrs. Ornadsky [Ornadskaia]
12.5 x 9 cm.
BOX 64 SR's Grandparents
BOX-FOLDER 64/45 Arkadiĭ A. Rakhmaninov and Varvara [Barbara] V. Rakhmaninova (born Pavlova; SR's paternal grandparents)
2 prints: print "A," unmatted, 11.1 x 8.0 cm. ; print "B," matted, 15.4 x 10.1 cm. (24.2 x 19.0 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 64/46 Pëtr Butakov (SR's maternal grandfather)
13.2 x 9.6 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/47 Pëtr Butakov (SR's maternal grandfather)
3 prints: print "A," 9.4 x 7.3 cm. ; print "B," 9.6 x 7.4 cm. ; print "C," 15.8 x 11.3 cm. (24.2 x 19.0 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 64/48 Sofiia Aleksandrovna Bukatova (SR's maternal grandmother)
2 prints: print "A," oval-shaped, 13.5 x 10.0 cm. ; print "B," 15.3 x 11.2 cm. (24.2 x 19.0 cm. with mat)
Print "A" verso bears a printed photographer's credit, in Russian: "P. SHaumann / Kronstadt [and] Oranienbaum"; as well as an inscription by Sophie Satin, identifying the photograph's subject.
Print "B" verso bears an inscription identifying the photograph's subject as "Mrs. Sophie Butakoff (born Litvinova)."
BOX 64 SR's Siblings
BOX-FOLDER 64/49 Elena Rakhmaninova (SR's older sister)
Print, reproduced from an unidentified Russian source, 15.5 x 10.4 cm.
BOX 64, 66, 69 SR's Daughters (alone or with others)
BOX-FOLDER 64/50 Irina and Tatiana Rachmaninoff as children (Irina, born 1903, is on the right; Tatiana, born 1907, is on left)
Matted print, 9.0 x 6.8 cm. (17.8 x 14.0 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 66/15 Studio portrait of Irina Rachmaninoff
22.0 x 15.9 cm. ; 35.7 x 27.7 cm. matted
Photographer is unidentified, although a stamp that appears on the lower right corner of the image reads "Hofphotogr [-] / Hahn – Nachf [-]."
BOX-FOLDER 64/51 Irina Rachmaninoff Wolkonsky holding a fan
15.2 x 11.4 cm.
Photograph of a painting from 1926.
BOX-FOLDER 69/6 Studio portrait of Irina Rachmaninoff Wolkonsky
27.9 x 21.9 cm. (39.3 x 30.5 cm. matted)
Photographer is unidentified, but likely Émile Marcovitch.
BOX-FOLDER 69/7 Studio portrait of Irina Rachmaninoff Wolkonsky and daughter Sophie Wolkonsky
29.7 x 23.6 cm. (43.9 x 33.0 cm. matted)
Photographer: Émile Marcovitch.
BOX-FOLDER 64/52 Irina Rachmaninoff Wolkonsky
11.5 x 7.8 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/53 Peter and Irina Wolkonsky
Print measures 23.8 x 16.2 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 66/16 Studio portrait of Tatiana Rachmaninoff
22.1 x 15.9 cm. (35.6 x 27.8 cm. matted)
Photographer is unidentified, although a stamp that appears on the lower right corner of the image reads "Hofphotogr [-] / Hahn – Nachf [-]."
BOX-FOLDER 69/8 Studio portrait of Tatiana Rachmaninoff Conus
23.6 x 17.4 cm. (37.5 x 30.4 cm. with mat)
Photographer: Émile Marcovitch.
BOX-FOLDER 64/54 Tatiana Rachmaninoff holding dog (terrier)
23.6 x 18.5 cm.
Photographer: Montauk Photo Concern.
BOX 64, 66 MAPCASE 5 Other Family Members
BOX-FOLDER 64/55 Alexander Rachmaninoff (né Conus; SR's grandson), Senar, circa 1939
Photographic postcard, 13.1 x 9.0 cm.
Photographer: Jean Schneider, Weggis (Luzern)
BOX-FOLDER 64/56 Alexander Rachmaninoff (né Conus; SR's grandson; on left) and another young boy (on right), circa 1945
9.4 x 7.2 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/57 Sophie Satin [Sofiia Satina] (SR's sister-in-law)
Color photograph ; 12.3 x 8.9 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 66/17 Studio portrait of Sophie Wolkonsky (SR's granddaughter)
24.2 x 19.6 cm. (32.9 x 25.4 cm. with mat)
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Peter Wolkonsky (husband of SR's daughter Irina)
Oval-shaped photograph, 41.0 x 31.0 cm., printed on large paper stock measuring 57.0 x 45.0 cm.
Item is housed in Folder 2.
BOX 64-65, 66, 69 MAPCASE 5 Photographs of SR and/or NR with Others
BOX-FOLDER 69/9 Dinner for Sergei Rachmaninoff by The Bohemians, the Biltmore, N.Y., Jan. 5, 1919
Panoramic photograph ; 27.0 x 46.0 cm.
Another copy of this photograph (which bears damage on its edges) is held within the Library of Congress's Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection.
BOX-FOLDER 69/10 Dinner for Mr. Fritz Kreisler by Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Liebman, the Biltmore, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1919
Panoramic photograph ; 28.7 x 49.4 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/58 SR and Ernest Ansermet, Lucerne, 1939
7.9 x 12.0 cm.
Verso bears an inscription, identifying the photograph's subjects, as well as the occasion of their collaborative performance of Beethoven's Concerto no. 1, op. 15, for piano and orchestra.
BOX-FOLDER 64/59 SR and Ivan Bunin
8.0 x 5.5 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/60 SR and Feodor Chaliapin [Fëdor SHaliapin], 1923
7.4 x 4.9 cm. (12.7 x 9.5 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 64/61 SR and Feodor Chaliapin [Fëdor SHaliapin] (left), Ivan Moskvin (center) and "Mr. Ramsh" (rear, with hat), 1923
3 prints: print "A," 9.8 x 16.5 cm. ; print "B," 10.8 x 18.1 cm.; print "C," 7.5 x 13.3 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/62 SR, NR, Feodor Chaliapin (the younger); or Alexander Conus (on right); Feodor Chaliapin (the elder), Mikhaĭl Chekhov or Boris Conus; on left, France, circa 1930
12.1 x 17.1 cm. (20.5 x 23.2 cm. with mat)
Verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin, which identifies the photograph's subjects. It reads: "On the left / F. Chaliapin, Sr. / Michail Chekov [Mikhaĭl CHekhov] / On the right: / Mrs Rachmaninoff / S. Rachmaninoff / Fedor Chaliapin, Jr / France, about 1930."
BOX-FOLDER 64/63 SR, NR, Feodor Chaliapin (the elder; embracing NR), Boris Conus, Alexander Conus, or Feodor Chaliapin (the younger), 1936
11.3 x 17.5 cm.
Verso bears an inscription identifying the photograph's subjects ("and (probably) Boris and Alexander Conus?")
BOX-FOLDER 66/18 SR, Boris Chaliapin, and Chaliapin's portrait of SR at the piano, in profile, circa 1940
2 identical prints: print "A," 19.2 x 20.8 cm. (25.6 x 28.0 cm. with mat) ; print "B" (unmatted), 19.2 x 20.8 cm.
Laid in: clipping titled "The Last Portrait of Rachmaninoff," July 1940, accompanied by (Russian) text written by M. Dolinskiĭ and S. CHertok.
BOX-FOLDER 66/19 SR, Walt Disney, and Vladimir Horowitz, circa 1942
19.2 x 24.0 cm. (27.8 x 30.6 cm. with mat)
Verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin identifying the photograph's subjects and its date ("California, 1942 (?)")
Includes photographic negative, measuring 19.6 x 24.6 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 64/64 SR, I. Dobrovein, and two other men, Oslo, 1928
17.7 x 11.6 cm. (27.0 x 20.2 cm. with paper stock mat)
Recto bears an inscribed dedication to SR from Otto Nyquist, dated "Oslo, 7.10.1928." Verso bears an inscription, by Sophie Satin, reading "Rachmaninoff in (Oslo Norway) Scandinavia 1928 / with I. Dobrovein (on the right) / and two men (managers??) / present made by Mrs Tamara Satin."
BOX-FOLDER 64/65 SR and Serge [Sergeĭ] Gagarin
Recto bears a printed caption in English that reads "Seventy concerts bring Rachmaninoff / back with ex-Prince Serge Gagarin, now / a U. S. citizen and Manhattan purser."
BOX-FOLDER 65/1 SR and Josef Hofmann, circa 1910
9.7 x 10.2 cm.
Verso bears an inscription by Sophie Satin, that reads "From a postcard in Moscow; about 1910 ?? Hofmann & Rachmaninoff SS [Sophie Satin]."
BOX-FOLDER 65/2 NR with Vladimir Horowitz (holding a score by SR) and an unidentified woman
24.0 x 19.5 cm.
Photographer: Larry Gordon Photo.
BOX-FOLDER 65/3 SR and Nikolaĭ Medtner, France, circa 1928-1930
10.1 x 6.0 cm. (16.2 x 11.3 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 66/20 SR and Eugene Ormandy, circa 1938
2 studio portraits: print "A," 23.3 x 18.4 cm. (31.7 x 25.4 cm. with mat) ; print "B" (unmatted), 23.7 x 18.5 cm.
Prints depict similar poses (SR seated at piano, with Ormandy standing next to him) but are slightly different in content.
BOX-FOLDER 65/4 SR and Eugene Ormandy, in rehearsal in Philadelphia, circa 1940
12.0 x 16.9 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 66/21 SR and Eugene Ormandy, in rehearsal in Philadelphia, circa 1940
18.6 x 23.4 cm. (27.9 x 30.3 cm. with mat)
A larger identical image is housed in Box 65, Folder 4.
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