What's online?
The entire collection is scanned and online.
What's in the entire collection?
This collection of glass photographic negatives captures portraits of several Metropolitan Opera singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The photographs were taken by Herman Mishkin, who was the official photographer of the Metropolitan Opera from 1910 to 1932. Singers represented include Maria Duchène, Manuel Salazar, Leonora Sparkes, Madame Zerola, Nicola Zerola, and Adeline Vosari.
About Herman Mishkin.
Herman Mishkin (1871–1948) was a Russian-American photographer of opera stars of the 'Golden Age'. Born in Minsk, Russia, Mishkin immigrated to the U.S. in 1885. He bought a camera during the amateur photography boom of the 1880s, and after working with the Manhattan Opera Company as a photographer-publicist, and building up a specialization in portraiture, Mishkin first supplied the Metropolitan Opera with photographs in 1905. From 1910 to 1932 he was the Met's photographer of choice for lobby shots and portraits, in the early years persuading operatic set painters to supply him with artful studio backdrops.
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