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Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

 Organization

Biography

__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)

Biography

Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.

Sources

Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Box 290: Negatives, 1959

 File — Box M123.0290: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024329183]
Identifier: M123.03.0290
Abstract

This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1959 festival season. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.

Dates: 1959

Box 291: Negatives, 1959-1960

 File — Box M123.0291: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331025]
Identifier: M123.03.0291
Abstract

This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1955 festival season. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.

Dates: 1959-1960

Box 292: Negatives, 1960-1968

 File — Box M123.0292: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331033]
Identifier: M123.03.0292
Abstract

This box contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1960-1968 festival seasons. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event from the season.

Dates: 1960-1968

Box 293: Negatives, 1950-1965

 File — Box M123.0293: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331017]
Identifier: M123.03.0293
Abstract This box contains approximately 350 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from festival seasons from1950's through the mid 1960's. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every event...
Dates: 1950-1965

Box 294: Negatives, 1944-1950

 File — Box M123.0294: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024330354]
Identifier: M123.03.0294
Abstract This box contains approximately 350 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from festival seasons from (est.) 1944 through the late 1950's. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil. Images may or may not exist in printed form elsewhere in the collection and images may or may not represent every...
Dates: 1944-1950

Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe Wedding Celebration Scene, 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00002
Abstract

Walter Cassel and Dolores Wilson portray Horace and Baby Doe Tabor in the wedding celebration scene of a production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe'' at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1956-1959

Central City Opera's the Ballad of Baby Doe, between 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00027
Abstract

Clifford Harvuot (front and left of center with mustache) appears as Horace Tabor, with Mary McMurray (Augusta Tabor) and Osie Hawkins (footman), in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: between 1956-1959

Central City Publicity for "The Merry Widow" Vol 2, Book 2; Biographies of the Stars etc., 1933

 Item
Identifier: M123.04.0003.0002.00001
Abstract Bound book of biographies and print material of the stars of the 1933 production The Merry Widow. Book includes page from New York Magazine Program with a short biography of Natalie Hall. Press Book on Richard Bonelli titled, ‘Leading Baritone; Metropolitan Opera Company’. Pamphlet and Press Book for Gladys Swarthout both printed by NBC Artists Service. Short typed biography of Lee Whitney and envelope with inscription ‘Lee Whitney’s Personal Data’. Pamphlet and Press Book for Frank Chapman...
Dates: 1933

Chester Ludgin as Horace Tabor in Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe, between 1956-1959

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00016
Abstract

Chester Ludgin poses for a publicity photograph. Ludgin appeared as Horace Tabor in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe," performed in the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: between 1956-1959

Dolores Wilson as Baby Doe in Central City Opera's Ballad of Baby Doe, 1956

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0069.0001.00013
Abstract

Dolores Wilson poses for a publicity portrait. Wilson appeared as 'Baby Doe' in the Central City Opera production of ''The Ballad of Baby Doe," performed at the Central City Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1956

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