Trade card portrait of singer Nellie Melba, Mason & Hamlin Pianos, Boston, Mass.

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Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
Musical instruments
Pianos and organs
Musical instruments - Pianos and organs - Folder 1
Trade card portrait of singer Nellie Melba, Mason & Hamlin Pianos, Boston, Mass.
(current record)

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Ephemera collection
- Advertisements, billheads, and trade cards
  - Musical instruments
    - Pianos and organs
      - Musical instruments - Pianos and organs - Folder 1
        Trade card for William H. Ivers, Jr., piano-forte tuner, Boston and Dedham, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Danforth Lyon, dealer in piano-fortes, No. 11 Westminster Street, Providence, Rhode Island, undated
        Trade card for W.M. Furbush & Son, dealers in pianos and organs, Farrington Block, Portland, Maine, undated
        Trade card for W.M. Furbush & Son, dealers in pianos and organs, Farrington Block, Portland, Maine, undated
        Trade card for E.A. Sawtelle, tuning and repairing, at Oliver Ditson's, 451 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The J.E. Lothrop Piano Co., Lothrop Building, Franklin Square, Dover, New Hampshire, undated
        Trade card for W.J. Lefavour, dealer in pianos and organs, Beverly, Mass., undated
        Trade card for G.A. Miller & Co., manufacturers of new and improved piano fortes, 702 & 706 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The S.L. House Co., pianos, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Trade card for the Beatty Organ, Daniel F. Beatty, Washington, New Jersey, undated
        Trade card for The S.L. House Co., pianos, Chicago, Illinois, undated
        Trade card for Nathan Richardson, importer, publisher and dealer in foreign and American music, No. 282 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Blake's Great Piano Palace, No. 612 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Label for Chickering & Sons, manufactuers of grand, square and upright piano-fortes, Tremont and Washington Streets, Boston, Mass., undated
        Advertisements for musical instruments, organs, pianos, Boston, Mass., April 25, 1868
        Advertisement for Jacob Chickering's New Style Premium Pianos, 300 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1856
        Advertisement for Chickering and Sons' Piano-Forte Manufactory, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1856
        Trade card for unidentified business, location unknown, 1872
        Trade card for unidentified business, location unknown, 1872
        Trade card for the Smith American Organ Company, 531 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for the Ivers & Pond Pianos, location unknown, undated
        Trade card for Blake's Great Piano Palace, 612 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Emerson Piano Co., 159 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1910
        Trade card for the Estey Organ Co., Brattleboro, Vermont, undated
        Trade card for the Emerson Piano Co., 159 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade cards for the Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Co., Boston, New York, Chicago, undated
        Advertisement for Chickering and Sons' Piano-Forte Manufactory, Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., 1854
        Advertisement for the Jacob Chickering Pinaoforte Warerooms, No. 300 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1854
        Trade card for Chickering & Sons Pianoforte Warerooms, 130 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York and 152 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade cards for Dyer & Co., pianos and organs for sale & to rent, 337 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Dyer & Co., stationery, musical merchandise, fancy goods, 337 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Dyer & Co., stationery, musical merchandise, fancy goods, 337 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass., undated
        Trade card for Clough & Warren Organ Co., Detroit, Michigan, 1876
        Trade card for The Everett Piano, Boston, Mass., 1893
        Bookmark for the Mason & Hamlin Co., pianos, organs, 4-6 Arcade, Brockton, Mass., undated
        Advertisement for Hallet, Davis & Co., manufacturers of grand and square pianos, No. 272 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., undated
        Trade card for The Wheelock Piano, manufactory, 149th Street near 3d Avenue, New York, New York, undated
        Trade card for The Wheelock Piano, manufactory, 149th Street near 3d Avenue, New York, New York, undated
        Advertisement for Model Melodeons, Mason & Hamlin, Cambridge Street corner of Charles, Boston, Mass., March 17, 1855
        Billhead for Nath'l Cummings, William Bourne, piano forte manufacturer, 484 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated April 28, 1869
        Billhead for Hook & Hastings Co., Dr., church organs, Kendal Green, Mass., dated November 14, 1919
        Billhead for Hook & Hastings Co., Dr., church organs, Kendal Green, Mass., dated August 21, 1920
        Advertisement for Chickering & Sons, manufacturers of grand, square and upright piano-fortes, 48 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. and 11 East Fourteenth Street, New York, New York, 1872
        Advertisement for Boardman, Gray & Co., Dolce Campana Piano-Forte manufacturers, Albany, New York, April 1857
        Advertisement for Hallet, Davis & Co., manufacturers of grand, parlor grand and square piano-fortes, ware-rooms, 409 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., May 1857
        Advertisement for Estey's Vox-Humana Organs, G.G. Saxe & Co., warerooms, 417 Broome Street, New York, New York, March 1867
        Advertisement for Bradbury's New Scale Pianos, William B. Bradbury, 425 & 427 Broome Street, New York, New York, June 1866
        Advertisements for pianos and organs, New York, New York, January 1867
        Advertisement for The Rogers Piano Company, manufacturers of the celebrated patent Cabinet Piano-Forte, Marble Block, 18 Eliot Street, Boston, Mass., August 1872
        Advertisement for Hallet, Davis & Co., manufacturers of grand, parlor grand and square pianos, warerooms, 272 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., October 1869
        Billhead for Henry F. Miller, piano-forte manufacturer, 611 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated November 3, 1881
        Advertisement for J.M. Bruce, piano-forte and organ warerooms, No. 15 Main Street, Ayer, Mass., October 22, 1874
        Billhead for Henry F. Miller, piano-forte manufacturer, 611 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., dated June 14, 1882
        Advertisement for Oliver Ditson & Co., American and foreign music, 449 & 451 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1884
        Advertisement for The Organita, Mass. Organ Co., 57 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1872
        Advertisement for Briggs Pianos, No. 5 Appleton Street, opp. 440 Tremont, Boston, Mass., 1885
        Advertisement for The Mechanical Piano-ette, The Massachusetts Organ Co., 57 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., April 1881
        Advertisement for Mason & Hamlin, pianos, 492 & 494 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass., 1909-1914
        Advertisement for Weber grand, upright and square piano-fortes, warerooms, Fifth Avenue, corenr 16th Street, New York, New York, 1876
        Advertisement for The Chickering Piano, Chickering & Sons, 152 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. and 130 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, 1885
        Handbill for Brown & Hallet Piano Fortes, Silas Allen, Jr., Boston, Mass.
        Trade card for the Henry F. Miller Piano Forte Establishment, Boston, Mass., undated
        Label for Lord, Gilbert & Cumston, piano manufacturers, No. 352 Washington Street, Boston, Mass., 1830s
        Trade card portrait of singer Nellie Melba, Mason & Hamlin Pianos, Boston, Mass. (current record)
        Handbill, Franklin Music Warehouse, No. 6 Milk Street, Boston, Mass.

Description

The item caption reads "Melba writes A preference for the Mason & Hamlin Piano indicates a superior musical nature." Dame Nellie Melba was a famous Australian soprano.

Details

Descriptive Terms

advertising
business (commercial function)
music
musical instruments
pianos
singers
portraits
trade cards (advertising)

Physical Description

1 trade card : portrait ; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 inches

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.01.082.02.01.064

Image Dimensions

5 3/4 x 3 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Will Twombly, 2015.

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Mason and Hamlin Co. (Publisher)

Material Type

trade cards (advertising)

Other People

Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931

Description Level

Item

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