Full caption: Geraldine Farrar listening to herself on the Victrola, and as Madame Butterfly. Advertisement for Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N.J., from the Red Book Magazine. Chicago: Red Book Corp., March 1914. AP2.R28. Graphics File, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-108223.

Full caption: Geraldine Farrar listening to herself on the Victrola, and as Madame Butterfly. Advertisement for Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N.J., from the Red Book Magazine. Chicago: Red Book Corp., March 1914. AP2.R28. Graphics File, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-108223. Full caption: Geraldine Farrar listening to herself on the Victrola, and as Madame Butterfly. Advertisement for Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N.J., from the Red Book Magazine. Chicago: Red Book Corp., March 1914. AP2.R28. Graphics File, Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-108223.

With her beauty, lively temperament, and magnetic stage presence, Metropolitan Opera diva Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) was one of the most celebrated American singing stars during the golden age of opera (ca. 1890-1910). W. J. Henderson of the New York Sun called her legion of female fans “Gerryflappers,” describing a typical fan as “a girl about flapper age who has created in her own half-baked mind a goddess which she names Geraldine Farrar.” Among the many recorded treasures that are part of the Geraldine Farrar Collection are several rare, unissued test pressings.