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Premier American violinist Fritz Kreisler, Vancouver, British Columbia

CA JMABC A.1985.001-1-10-LF.00203
Item
April 7, 1923

Part of Leonard Frank Photos studio fonds

Photograph depicts Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962). Viennese by birth, Kreisler was a premier American violinist.

Half body shot of a middle aged man with a mustache; wearing a heavy wool overcoat and fedora, looking off into the distance; appears to be standing in front of some sort of baroque sculpted pillar.

Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vancouver, British Columbia

CA JMABC A.1985.001-1-10-LF.00221
Item
March 11, 1929

Part of Leonard Frank Photos studio fonds

Photograph depicts Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943), at the Great Northern Railway Station in Vancouver, B.C.

Man in overcoat, holding a fedora sitting on a stool on a caboose of the Great Northern Railway; train car partially visible to left of caboose.

Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vancouver, British Columbia

CA JMABC A.1985.001-1-10-LF.00220
Item
March 11, 1929

Part of Leonard Frank Photos studio fonds

Photograph depicts Russian pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943), at the Great Northern Railway Station in Vancouver, B.C.

Man in overcoat and fedora standing to right of Great Northern caboose; sign on railing of caboose reads "GREAT NORTHERN" with a mountain goat in the middle.

Scottish dancers on stage

CA JMABC A.2009.003-006-L.16376
Item
[1930]

Part of Seidelman family fonds

Image of dancers on a stage doing a Scottish dance.

Scottish dancers on stage

CA JMABC A.2009.003-006-L.16377
Item
[1930]

Part of Seidelman family fonds

Image of dancers on stage doing a Scottish dance.

Crowd watching a Scottish Dance

CA JMABC A.2009.003-006-L.16356
Item
[1930]

Part of Seidelman family fonds

Crowd watching people do Scottish dance with man playing bagpipes.

Unidentified boy playing piano

CA JMABC A.2009.003-006-L.16424
Item
[1930]

Part of Seidelman family fonds

Image of a boy playing a piano.

George B. Zukerman, internationally acclaimed solo bassoonist

CA JMABC A.1995.006, A.2011.024-001-1-L.00112
Item
July 8, 1951

Part of Jewish Western Bulletin fonds

Photograph depicts George Zukerman an internationally acclaimed Solo Bassoonist. Zuckerman came to the US during WWII where his father was a correspondent for several Yiddish newspapers. He first played with the Vancouver Symphony in 1950 on invitation from New York, where he met and married Netta Karmel, a social worker with the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau. Zukerman took up permanent residence in Vancouver in 1953.