Photographs
name: label: Names
content: Lake Placid Club
label: Names
content: Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989
label: Names
content: Lopez, Vincent, 1894-1975
label: Collection Author
content: Falcone Custom Grand Pianos
label: Collection Donor
content: Pratt, Read and Company
label: Collection Creator
content: Sohmer & Company
place: label: Place
content: New York, New York
label: Place
content: Long Island (N. Y.)
label: Place
content: Lake Placid, NY
topic: label: Topic
content: Piano
label: Topic
content: White Christmas
label: Topic
content: Washington Irving High School
label: Topic
content: Sohmer Park
label: Topic
content: Celebrities
setName: label: See more items in
content: Sohmer & Co. Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0349, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Photolithographs
label: Type
content: Photolithography
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Photolithographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Photolithography
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographs, whose functions are unknown and separate from those used in the art work for advertising, cover a range of subjects.  The photo prints primarily depict views of pianos, but there are interior views of the factory and showrooms as well as of piano actions and construction.  Also included are photographs of Harry J. Sohmer sr. and his sons Harry J. Jr. and Robert, as well as picture of their employees.  Photographs of hotels, the Washington Irving High School in New York, and the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, NY, all customers of Sohmer & Co., were probably kept for marketing purposes, such as the inclusion in brochures.  A large number of photographs depict celebrities, such as Guy Lombardo, Vincent Lopez, and Irving Berlin seated at Sohmer Pianos.  The series also includes photographs with scene from the motion picture "White Christmas."  The known dates of these photographs range between 1934 and 1961, but some may have been taken in the 1920s. The photographs are arranged by subject and are identified by a number consisting of the collection number, the box number, the folder number, and the number of the individual photograph.