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Pro Arte Quartet
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Pro Arte Quartet. Left to right: Albert Rahier, second violin; Bernard Milofsky, viola; Ernest Friedlander, cello; and Rudolf Kolisch, first violin. The first violin player, Kolisch, learned to play left handed following an accident.
February 2, 1949
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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