287 •(MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS--PIANOS) Album of approximately 51 photographs of sound props for movie studios, including pianos and music boxes.
A catalogue including photographs of musical instruments intended as sound props for early sound movies, with a letter from Starr Piano Company about their sound prop rental. Silver prints and 5 copy prints of drawings, the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), some with Starr Piano Company hand stamps, labels, and printed and/or handwritten item descriptions, on recto, and photography studio hand stamps and handwritten notations, on verso. Oblong 8vo, cloth cover with the debossed title Starr Piano Company Sound Properties Department; string binding. Circa 1930s

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