Enid Brant, Scrapbooked
All we have to go on is her caption: Enid Brandt, San Francisco's Child Pianist. Her photo comes from the Pennsylvania Report Scrapbook, what we'd consider 'altered art' today. The book was originally the "Pennsylvania Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1895," but an industrious photo-lover cut photos out of magazines and glued them over the top of the less-than-interesting education statistics. Most photos appear to be from glossy magazines of the time, and they all seem to range in the 1900-1905 range, based on photos of politicians and other places. One thing missing from the scrapbook, despite the amount of California photos? The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Enid doesn't appear in Google as growing into a prodigy and master of her instrument; I hope the talented young lady made it through the quake and fire.
Labels: 1900s, enid brandt, pennsylvania report scrapbook, pianist, san francisco, vintage photo










3 Comments:
Hi :) Young lady did indeed survive the quake - I work at a concert hall archive in the UK and have just run across a programme of a concert she gave in 1913. The picture on the programme was so beautiful I Googled her and found this - hope you don't mind my commenting. :)
Ah, that's good to hear -- it'd be a sad story if the earthquake got the best of her. Thanks for letting us know!
Hi, just to jump in - she was born in 1891, but sadly died 18th April 1916. I don't know what happened though.
Post a Comment
<< Home