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Percy Grainger visited the musical halls of London in the decade before World War I, experiencing for the first time the sounds of the mallet percussion instruments used in jazz. To enrich his knowledge of these instruments, Grainger developed an…

platinum (or palladium) print,

Photo: 19.3 x 13.7 cm
Photo and frame: 30.1 x 22.3 cm

The Grainger Museum Archive contains hundreds of photographs of unidentified people. Some are very elaborate and sophisticated images like this Edwardian lady…

Platinum prints

Stephanie Ludwig ran a studio in Munich called Veritas. Some of her clients were expressionist dancers whom she photographed elegantly and simply, using natural light.

Platinum prints

Stephanie Ludwig ran a studio in Munich called Veritas. Some of her clients were expressionist dancers whom she photographed elegantly and simply, using natural light.

Platinum prints

Stephanie Ludwig ran a studio in Munich called Veritas. Some of her clients were expressionist dancers whom she photographed elegantly and simply, using natural light.

In 1896 Mona McBurney graduated from the Bachelor of Music at the University of Melbourne, becoming the first woman in Australia to receive this degree. Born on the Isle of Man, McBurney came from a musical and scholarly family. Moving to Victoria in…

University of Melbourne Gazette, December 1971

Grainger Museum Archive, 2017/23-4/5

35mm film

This photo shows Tristram Cary adjusting a knob on an EMS Synthi AKS portable synthesizer in the window of his studio. In the background is his Bechstein piano. This photograph was taken while Cary was composing the music for …