FANNY BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER VISITING CARD SIGNED+ SMALL PHOTO

Description

You are bidding on inscribed visiting card ( 2-1/4" x 3-1/2") of Austrian born pianist, FANNY BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER (1863-1927) and small photo (probably from postcard) (3" x 4").
The visiting card was glued from autograph book-
The front of card has some residue covering "Fannie," with address in right bottom corner 568 Division St East.
(someone has written in pencil "Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler concert pianist" in pencil at top
Inscription on reverse in black ink"
"I send you my autograph with pleasure, Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler Chicago Feb 21, 1900."
The picture is of medium weight paper with her name written in pencil on reverse.
Fanny was born Fannie Blumenfeld on July 16, 1863, in Bielitz, Austrian Silesia to Jewish parents. She emigrated to the U.S. with her family at the age of 4 in 1867. The family settled in Chicago where they later changed their name to Bloomfield. She was the sister of Maurice Blumfield and the aunt of Leonard Bloomfield.
At the age of 6, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the U.S., heard her play and advised that she became a pupil of Leschetizky. She made her debut at the age of 11 in February 1875. In 1878, she returned to Austria to study in Vienna, under Leschetizky. While in Austria, she changed her name from Bloomfeld to Bloomfield. She returned to Chicago in 1883.
She married the attorney Sigmund Zeisler in 1885 and had 3 sons. In 1888 she returned to Vienna to study with Leschetizky.