Illustrated trade card depicting eight labeled bust portraits of famous opera singers encircling a laurel wreath that surrounds a Sohmer piano. Includes Adelina Patti, Christine Nilsson, Antonio F. Galassi, Clara Louise Kellogg, Albert Niemann, Emma Cecilia Thursby, Italo Campanini, and Etelka Gerster. Sohmer & Co. was founded by Hugo Sohmer and Joseph Kuder in New York City in 1872., Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Sold only by Samuel Nittinger, pianos & organs, 1204 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., Manuscript note on verso: Chester., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Sohmer [P.9651.22]
