February 1917, New York. "Frieda Hempel." The German soprano and Metropolitan Opera star. 4x6 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1929. "Miss Styron." Sade Coghill Styron (1889-1982), "well-known authority on old music." 4x5 glass negative. View full size.

August 1940. "Farmer playing guitar on the porch in the evening. Near Natchitoches, Louisiana." Medium format nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.

June 7, 1944. "Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco." On display on D-Day Plus One, a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram "Soundies" machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played 16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime. 8x10 inch acetate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley and Marilyn Blaisdell collections. View full size.

May 1921. Washington, D.C. "Charles Seeger, a composer, is a brother of Alan Seeger, the war poet. His wife is a distinguished violinist." And their baby boy will grow up to be folk legend Pete Seeger. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

        Ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger, seated in automobile, with family, standing, L-R: wife Constance Seeger, concert violinist, holding son Pete (1919-2014), and sons John and Charles. The family is ready to leave Washington, D.C., for their 1921 "trailer trip" musical expedition to bring classical music to rural areas.

"Alda -- May 1921." The Australian soprano and frequent Caruso collaborator Frances Alda shipboard in New York. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1922. "Paul Specht band." Last seen at the Astor Roof Garden, and now in the recording studio also seen here. Note arrangement of the scores around the acoustic recording horn. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

New York circa 1922. "Paul Specht Orchestra, Hotel Astor Roof Garden." Take five, boys, and don't burn the house down. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.

July 12, 1922. New York. The soprano and vocal coach Estelle Liebling, instructor of Beverly Sills and a young Meryl Streep. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

May 31, 1943. "Gallipolis, Ohio. Young horn player at the Decoration Day cere­monies." Photo by Arthur Siegel, Office of War Information. View full size.

        At noon the Texas Cowboy Band from Simmons College in Abilene played for Mrs. Hoover, later also playing for the President.

March 5, 1929. "Cowboy Band serenades President and Mrs. Hoover at White House following Inauguration." National Photo glass negative. View full size.

        Who needs
        Cadillacs
        Mink coats
        The income tax?

        So we're squares
        Who cares?
        Baby -- I'm with you!

New York, 1958. "Singer Anita O'Day, half-length portrait, facing front." 8x10 gelatin silver print, CBS Television Network Photo Division. View full size.

Circa 1903. "Symphony Hall -- Boston, Mass." And yet another sign advertising The Great Creatore and his Italian Band. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Richmond, California, 1914. "Victor Talking Machine display. Hawley Piano Co., Macdonald Avenue." With Nipper headlining a list of the latest platters. 8x6 inch glass negative, photographer unknown. View full size.

Los Angeles circa 1953. "Tex Williams, host of Town Hall Party on KNBH-TV." The country singer known for "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)." 4x5 acetate negative from the Shorpy Publicity Department archive. View full size.