Elssler, Fanny - Autograph Note Signed & Print Unsigned Photos - Opera Signed vintage photograph

Signed vintage photograph

shown in role (probably as Zarastro in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte)

stamped on verso by photographer Sedge Leblang

ALSO INCLUDED: 1 Autograph Letter Signed on Melchior's letterhead from his home "The Viking" in Beverly Hills

whose real name was Bernice James

Elssler, Fanny - Autograph Note Signed & Print Unsigned Photos - Opera Signed vintage photographAustrian ballerina (1810 1884) who introduced theatricalized folk dance into ballet; celebrated for her spirited, spectacular dancing and technique. Autograph note in German signed by her, dated January 10, 1889 (original envelope and translation included). Size is 3. 9 x 6. 25 inches, folds, in excellent condition; the envelope is 4. 5 x 1. 9 inches. ALSO INCLUDED is a color print of her shown in the Cracovian dance from "La Gypsy". Size is 7 x 9. 25