Photograph & Program - Ariel Ladies' Quartette

Boston, MA: Holland (photographer), 1880. Moderate wear. Scuffs and light fading.. A 9 3/4" x 13 1/4" photograph on card on a slightly larger mount captioned "Ariel Quartette". Depicts the four singer in a parlor scene, perhaps the studio, presumably in performance attire as each of their light colored dresses is adorned with floral garlands. A guitar for accompaniment. Reverse is blank. Also includes a 4 pp. program for the Graduation Concert at Lebanon High School, Class of 89 with entertainment by Leitsinger's Orchestra of Brattleboro, VT and Ariel Ladies' Quartette of Boston. Image from photograph of the quartette on the cover. The inside page includes the programme with numerous performances by the Quartette. Measures 6 3/4" x 5 1/2" A vocal quartette originally organized in Cortland, NY in 1886 by Miss Fannie E. Holt, building the vocal group to be sustainable for some 15 years or more. The quartette consisted of Miss Jennie Lind Lewis, first soprano; Miss Louise G. Webber, second soprano; Miss Fannie E. Holt; first alto and Miss Emma V. Foster; second alto (information attained from an article in the Cortland Standard, January 16, 1894.