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Treasures from the Sound Archive

50 Years of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

John FrancisVolunteer, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Sir Thomas Beecham — TIME Magazine, April 5, 1943

Rudolf and Peter Serkin playing Schubert

Elisabeth Schumann and Richard Strauss

Sir Thomas Beecham, New York Mayor Fiorello Laguardia,and Fritz Kreisler in 1944

Fritz Kreisler in an NBC publicity photograph

Fritz Kreisler in an NBC publicity photograph

Bruno Walter, Thomas Mann, and Arturo Toscanini in Salzburg, 1935

A Selenophon operated by Seth B. Winner Version 1

A Selenophon operated by Seth B. Winner Version 2

Don Giovanni Act 1, Salzburg Festival 1934

Ezio Pinza as Don Giovanni, Salzburg Festival production

Ezio Pinza views his portrait as Don Giovanni, 1945

Ezio Pinza as Mephistopheles in Faust

Serge Koussevitzky in 1943 Version 1

Serge Koussevitzky in 1943 Version 2

Lawrence Tibbett as Germont in La Traviata

Jose Iturbi with portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh

Iturbi accompanies Leo the MGM lion

Iturbi with Yousuf Karsh

Jan and Rafael Kubelik, 1935

Igor Stravinsky in the 1930s

Arturo Toscanini with Wally Toscanini Horowitz, 1950

Program, Richmond, Virginia, April 19, 1950

Toscanini in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, with local guide

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