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Iconography, 1885-1992 (continued)
Photographs of SR and/or NR with Others (continued)
SR and Arturo Toscanini, August 1939 (continued)
A photographic reproduction of an original photograph (taken at Lucerne) that was owned by Eugene Ormandy. Bears dedications to Ormandy and signatures of both SR and Toscanini, dated 1941 and 1942, respectively.
Verso bears inscriptions by Sophie Satin identifying the photograph's subjects as well as indicating its provenance ( a gift to SR from Ormandy); it is also accompanied by a page by Satin that contains information about the provenance of the photograph,and a partial transcription of SR's inscription from the photograph.
BOX-FOLDER 65/15 SR and Ernest Urchs, circa 1919-1922
23.7 x 18.7 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 65/16 SR with the staff of the Moscow Catherine High School for Girls=Muzykal'naia Ekaterinskaia Instituta, circa 1905-1910
15.3 x 23.1 cm. (23.4 x 30.7 cm. with mat)
Verso contains identifying information. Rachmaninoff and the music staff. Includes Mrs Olga S. Kraevsky [Kraevskaia], Lev Conus [Konius], head of the music section, Alexander Goldenweiser [Gol'denveizer], Vladimir Wilshau [Vil'shau] and others.
BOX-FOLDER 65/17 SR with V. Vil'shau and other musicians in Tblisi (Georgia), circa 1913
11.5 x 17.0 cm.
Photograph also includes S. Mir... [?] (Tblisi offices / R. M. O.), K. Min'iar (violoncellist), A. Gurko (doctor, philanthropist ["Maecenas"]), and V. Semigalov (violist).
BOX-FOLDER 65/18 SR and NR with others at SR's birthday celebration
11.3 x 17.7 cm.
In Mr & Mrs Greiner's [Aleksandr Greĭner] house, with Julia Steinway (Frederick Steinway), Mrs Theodor Steinway (Ruth Steinway), Mrs Alexander Greiner, Mrs Irina Wolkonsky, Mrs Vladimir Horowitz (Wanda), Mrs Leopold Auer (Wanda Auer), and Mrs Sergei Rachmaninoff (Natalie Rachmaninoff).
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Posters containing images of SR
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 1873 / 1943 / S. V. Rakhmaninov, 1946
59.5 x 88.2 cm.
Images of SR at various points during his life; individuals associated with him (such as Feodor Chaliapin, Antonina Nezhdanova); set designs for his operas (Francheska da Rimini, AlekoSkuporytsar' (=The Miserly Knight)); page from the holograph manuscript of SR's Concerto no. 2, op. 18, for piano and orchestra; and biographical information.
Housed in Folder 3.
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 1873 / Sergei Vasil'evich / Rakhmaninov, 1943, 1960
91.7 x 57.2 cm.
Images of SR, alone and with others (Aleksandr Siloti; cast of SR's opera Skupoĭ rytsar' (=The Miserly Knight); with Professor Nikolaĭ Zverev and Moscow Conservatory classmates); individuals (Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky [CHaĭkovskiĭ]; cast of SR's opera Aleko); excerpt from the holograph manuscript of SR's Concerto no. 2, op. 18, for piano and orchestra; images of Ivanovka (SR's home in his youth); and an artistic rendering of the Novgorod landscape; biographical information.
Housed in Folder 3.
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Oval-shaped images of SR, Nikolaĭ Rimsky-Korsakov [Rimskiĭ-Korsakov], Mikhaĭl Glinka, Anton Rubinstein [Rubinshteĭn], Aleksandr Glazunov, and Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky [CHaĭkovskiĭ], undated
22.0 x 74.0 cm. (26.1 x 78.0 cm. including border)
Housed in Folder 4.
MAPCASE-DRAWER 5/15 Tabel'-kalendar (=small table calendar), 1973
(2 copies)
Bearing an image of SR on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth.
Housed in Folder 4.
BOX-FOLDER 65/19 NR with others (Grace Harrington, Jeanne Therrien, Ruth Geiger, Gary Graffman)
2 separate images of the same individuals ; both 23.9 x 18.8 cm.
BOX 65 Photographs of SR and/or NR with Unidentified Individuals
BOX-FOLDER 65/20 SR (in his youth), with two unidentified women and (partially visible) dog
9.6 x 6.3 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 65/21 Handwritten invitation to a birthday party in honor of SR
Invitation contains a photograph of SR in profile.
BOX-FOLDER 65/22 SR and two unidentified men aboard a boat
10.8 x 6.2 cm.
BOX 65-66, 69 Photographs and Iconography of Others
BOX-FOLDER 65/23 Chaliapin, Feodor [Fëdor SHaliapin]: photograph of pencil drawing by Feodor's son Boris Chaliapin [Chaliapine], Paris, 1932
28.7 x 20.8 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 69/12 Chaliapin, Feodor: three photographs of Chaliapin in his various operatic roles, New York, May 1938
Dedication: Fëdor Ivanovich SHaliapin / Svetloĭ Pamiati Velikogo Artista (=Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin / In shining memory of a great artist.
BOX-FOLDER 65/24 Chaliapin, Feodor [Fëdor SHaliapin]: reproduction in the form of a mailing stamp, of a 1917 photograph of Chaliapin
By the Kazan photographer Fel'tser.
BOX-FOLDER 66/22 Coolidge, Calvin
22.8 x 15.4 cm. (35.1 x 25.0 cm. on paper)
Inscribed by its subject on recto: "To Sergei Rachmaninoff / With appreciation / Calvin Coolidge."
BOX-FOLDER 66/23 Coolidge, Grace, 1924
26.3 x 18.4 cm. (34.2 x 25.5 cm on paper)
Inscribed by its subject on recto: "To Dr. Sergei Rachmaninoff to tell him of my sincere appreciation of his music at the White House on March the tenth 1924. Grace Coolidge."
BOX-FOLDER 65/25 Davenport, Charles (American eugenicist and biologist), 1928
17.0 x 12.2 cm.
Inscribed by its subject on recto.
BOX-FOLDER 65/26 Don Cossack Chorus, Dresden, circa 1920s
11.1 x 16.7 cm.
Photographer: Ursula Richter, Dresden.
BOX-FOLDER 65/27 Farrar, Charles Ellis and wife (?)
10.8 x 6.2 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 66/24 Farrar, Geraldine, holding dog: studio portrait, 1927
32.5 x 26.0 cm.
Photographer: Mishkin (New York)
BOX-FOLDER 66/25 Maharaja of Mysore [Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV], 1939
30.0 x 25.5 cm.
Bears an inscription by its subject on recto, Lucerne, 16 August 1939.
BOX-FOLDER 65/28 Menzer, M. A.
Reproduction ; 14.2 x 8.5 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 65/29 Thaxter, Roland (American mycologist)
Reproduction ; 15.4 x 10.3 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 66/26 Vijaya, 1939
30.0 x 24.0 cm.
Shows a woman who is perhaps a relative of the Maharaja of Mysore (Box 66, Folder 25), sitting at a Steinway grand piano, upon which is a photograph of SR.
BOX-FOLDER 65/30 Photograph of performers at concert in memory of SR, Lucerne, 10 September 1943
9.5 x 13.8 cm.
Photographer: Jean Schneider.
BOX-FOLDER 65/31 Photographic postcards of the Topchider (Serbia) Sanitorium for White Russian War Invalids, 1929
5 postcards ; vary in size between 8.5 x 13.9 cm. and 7.8 x 16.8 cm.
Show images of the sanitorium's residents; identification information written by Sophie Satin.
These postcards were sent to SR by Sergeĭ Paleolog in 1929, and were originally housed in the Correspondence to SR subseries.
BOX 65-67, 69 Miscellaneous Photographs
BOX 65, 67 Ivanovka (Tambov, Russia)
BOX-FOLDER 65/32 Exterior view of the home
14.0 x 27.3 cm. (21.8 x 33.7 cm. with mat)
Verso bears inscriptions, first by Sophie Satin, reads "The house in Ivanovka, Tambov [Russia], where Rachmaninoff & his family lived in 1902-1917"; the other identifies the house and the dates during which it was occupied by SR and his family.
BOX-FOLDER 65/33 Exterior view of the home, March 1973
10.1 x 17.5 cm.
Verso bears an inscription that reads "Construction of a replica of the wing [of the house] in which S. V. Rachmaninoff lived."
BOX-FOLDER 65/34 Exterior views of the home
2 prints: print "A" (in which four women are visible), 8.4 x 11.7 cm. ; print "B," 8.6 x 11.9 cm.
Verso of both prints bear stamps reading "Ivanovka," and dated 1973; stamps reading "From the collection of N. [Nikolaĭ] A. Nikiforov"; identification written in the hand of Nikiforov, of the photographs' subjects.
BOX-FOLDER 65/35 Exterior views of the property
3 prints: print "A," 12.2 x 17.1 cm. ; print "B," 16.7 x .8 x 13.5 cm. ; Print "C," 23.6 x 16.7 cm.
Print "A" contains a view of the estate's fields.
Print "B" depicts an "old maple tree" at Ivanovka, 1969; its verso bears inscriptions that identify the photographs' subject and location.
Print "C" depicts "one of the linden trees at ‘Oneg.'"
BOX-FOLDER 65/36 Obelisk at the site of the house ("Oneg") where SR was born
3 prints of the same subject: "print "A," 15.7 x 11.0 cm. ; print "B," 10.1 x 17.4 cm. ; print "C," 9.6 x 14.9 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 65/37 Views of Tambov
3 prints: print "A," 16.7 x 22.7 cm. ; print "B," 16.7 x 23.0 cm. ; print "C," 16.7 x 22.7 cm.
Print "A" depicts a "Corner of ‘Oneg' and its surroundings; in the distance, the river Volkhov."
Print "B" depicts a "View of the Kreml' (=fortress) from across the river Volkhov. In the foreground is the Sofiĭskiĭ Cathedral and its bell tower."
Print "C," depicts a two-story white building; a handwritten inscription that appears on its verso and presumably identifies the photograph's subject, has unfortunately been obscured; only the date "March 1973" is legible.
BOX-FOLDER 65/38 Piano at the house (now the House-Museum) where SR lived at Ivanovka
17.2 x 11.7 cm.
BOX-FOLDER 67/1 Scrapbook of forty photographs documenting the opening day of the Ivanovka House-Museum at Tambov, Russia, 26 May 1968
Compiled by N. Emel'ianova, whose handwritten dedication to Sophie Satin appears on the verso of the scrapbook's front cover.
Includes a brief typed history of Ivanovka.
Laid in: two additional photographs (identified on their verso); and two Soviet customs forms, from 1968, completed by Emel'ianova (a resident of the USSR) in order to send the scrapbook to Satin (in the USA)
BOX-FOLDER 67/2 Scrapbook of thirty-four photographs of the region of Oneg, SR's birthplace
Compiled by Tamara Samonova and Alekseĭ Vorob'ëv.
BOX-FOLDER 65/39 Scrapbook of ten photographs of the region of Oneg
Compiled by N. Emel'ianova.
Cover page reads "Piešimo sąsiuvinis" (=sketchbook (Lithuanian))
First page bears a reproduction of a woodcut of SR (by Dmitriev) and bears an inscription that reads "Sergei Vasil'evich Rachmaninoff. Later years."
BOX 65-66, 69 Senar (Hertenstein, Switzerland)
BOX-FOLDER 65/40 Exterior view of house
12.1 x 16.4 cm. (19.7 x 22.8 cm. with mat)
BOX-FOLDER 65/41 Exterior views of house
5 separate prints: Folder "A" contains 2 prints, both 8.5 x 13.0 cm.; Folder "B" contains 3 small prints (two black-and-white, one color, 5.5 x 10.0 cm.)
BOX-FOLDER 69/13 Exterior view of house
16.3 x 22.3 cm. (29.0 x 35.7 cm. with mat)
Photographer: H. Friebel (Sursee, Switzerland)
BOX-FOLDER 69/14 Exterior view of house, garden and lake
15.7 x 22.0 cm (29.2 x 35.7 cm with mat)
Photographer: H. Friebel (Sursee, Switzerland)
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