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Jaroslav Kocian, Bohemian Violinist Virtuoso Portrait, 1903

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Portrait of Jaroslav Kocian, 1903 (Internet Archive)
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Historical portrait of Jaroslav Kocian, prominent Bohemian violinist virtuoso, photographed by Sarony in New York, 1903. Public domain photograph.


This photograph was taken by Sarony's New York studio on 11 July 1903 and shows Jaroslav Kocian, identified in the archive as a Bohemian violinist virtuoso.

The record offers no further details about Kocian's career or the circumstances of the sitting. Sarony was a New York photography business, but the archive provides no additional information about the studio's work or history.

The photograph is held in the archive's Museum of Performance and Design collection and was made publicly available through California Revealed, a statewide programme that digitises materials from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. The programme tag indicates where the photograph was digitised rather than where it was originally created.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.


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