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Personal Photograph Album: A cased album, with label to spine "N.Y. + Israel (1950) - Also 1960 + 1961 - " containing a wonderful range of private photographs, performances, rehearsals and meetings. Noted several of Heifetz with Leonard Bernstein, with Chaim Weizmann, with his wife, Frances Speigelberg, with Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, performing on a makeshift stage in Eilat, with Sir Malcolm Sargent in London, with his accompanist Brooks Smith; and many more. Some annotations. (111 images).
Heifetz often said that if he hadn't had a musical career he would have wanted to be a photographer. He collected and saved many photographs from his travels and appearances.
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