Professor Carl von Schafhaütl, Dayton C. Miller Collection

Inscription: Recto: l. l.: (date embossed on photo) 1905; l. r.: (photographer's name and city embossed on photo) F Müller / München; bottom edge of mount, center: (printed in black) (coat of arms); l. r. (printed in black) FRIEDRICH MÜLLER / Hofphotograph / MÜNCHEN, Amalienstrasse 9.; Verso: u. l.: (printed in black) (coat of arms) / FRIEDRICH MÜLLER / PHOTOGRAPHISCHE KUNSTANSTALT / Inhaber: TH. HILSDORF / HERZ. BAYR. HOFPHOTOGRAPH / MÜNCHEN / Amalienstrasse 9. / TELEPHON 354.; u. r. (in pencil) 439; center: (in pencil) von Schafhaütl / Boehm's friend.; l. r.: (printed in black in very small font) KIESER & PREUFER, KGL. BAYR. HOFLIEFERANTEN, MÜNCHEN
Provenance: Source not known.
In 1846 and 1847, Theobald Boehm studied acoustics under Carl von Schafhaütl, a professor at the University of Munich, and they remained life-long friends. (Theobald Boehm, The Flute and Flute Playing, tr. Dayton C. Miller. New York: Dover, 1964, pp. 12, 166.)
Condition: Photograph is in good condition. Corners of mount are slightly worn.

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.