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Berlin Theater, Opera and Ballet: Personalities of the Berlin theater world

Cartes-de-visite portraits of actors, singers and ballet dancers of mostly the Berlin theater scene. 1870s - 1890s. 105 cartes-de-visite albumen prints. Several signed by the sitters in ink on the verso, inserted in gilt-edged album pages (edges time-stained, some album slits repaired with tape), some annotated in ink in detail (actor's and photographer's names) on album pages beneath the images, bound in contemporary opulent embossed leather album (edges slightly rubbed, spine repaired) with brass ornamental figure on front cover.
An extensive collection of actor, singer and dancer portraits of the Berlin theater in the 1870s - 1890s, including Jenny Lind, Adele Grantzow, Adelina Patti, Elka Gerster, Pauline Lucca, Marie Monbelli, Mathilde Mallinger, Lilly Lehmann, Emilie Tagliana, Minnie Hauk, Wilma von Voggenhuber, Heinrich Ernst, Albert Niemann, Franz Nachbauer, Eugen Gura, Franz Betz, Clara Ziegler, Charlotte Wolter, Johanna Buska, Louise Erhardt, Maria Niemann-Seebach, Marie von Moser-Sperner, Friedrich Hasse, Maximillian Ludwig, Ernesto Rossi, Lina Mayr, Marie Geistinger, Ernestine Wegener, Margerithe Atôt, Johanna Wagner and Karl Helmerding. - Some faded, mostly in edges, many in very good condition.