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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 2340 Collections and/or Records:

Box 287: Negatives, 1958

 File — Box M123.0287: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024329175]
Identifier: M123.03.0287
Abstract

This ox contains approximately 150 negatives from the Central City Opera festival taken during various social events, productions, and candid images of CCOHA affiliates from the 1958 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: 1958

Box 288: Negatives, 1958

 File — Box M123.0288: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331067]
Identifier: M123.03.0288
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 1958 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: 1958

Box 289: Negatives, 1958-1959

 File — Box M123.0289: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331041]
Identifier: M123.03.0289
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 1958-1959 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: 1958-1959

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

Box 365: CCOHA Properties, 1932-1978

 File — Box M123.0365: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186024717239]
Identifier: M123.01.0365
Abstract

This box contains photographs, reports, newspapers, and other matierials associated with the CCOHA properties and opera festivals. The photos are of Central City, Colorado and various properties there owned by CCOHA, they were taken by Bill McGlone, an affiliate of the CCOHA.

Dates: 1932-1978

Box Office

 File
Identifier: M123.03.0070.0006
Abstract

This folder contains photos of the box office for Central City Opera House.

Dates: 1932-1962

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