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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 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

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