These pictures are of Ann "Ma" McNulty's little Baldoni Bartoli accordion. The McNulty Family were the hottest
Irish act in the NY City area, and up and down the east coast from the 1930's thru the 1950's. They recorded 155
sides which appeared on 3 labels. In the early 1940's they had 2 weekly radio shows and wrote a weekly column
for the Irish Advocate newspaper. This was in addition to their performances at venues which ranged from Church
fund raisers to the Brooklyn Academy to Carnegie Hall. Their main venue were the 5 Leitrim Houses, which they
played several times a week. Ma McNulty played the button accordion while her son & daughter, Peter & Eileen,
sang, danced, and acted. Ma had 5 accordions, one of which is the Baldoni pictured below:

Pictures:

Left button, lower note, is being repaired

Note shift mechanism

The McNulty Family: Eileen, 'Ma, with this Baldoni, and Peter in 1940.