Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
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 2629 Collections and/or Records:
Box 291: Negatives, 1959-1960
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.
Box 292: Negatives, 1960-1968
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.
Box 293: Negatives, 1950-1965
Box 294: Negatives, 1944-1950
Box 296: Negatives
This box contains approximately 130 negatives and slides from the Central City Opera House Association records from an unknown period of time. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil - Images in the box are interior and exterior images of the Opera House and images from the CCOH garden from the 1983 festival season.
Box 297: Negatives
This ox contains approximately 100 negatives from the Central City Opera House Association records from an unknown span of time. Negatives were found in the CCOHA offices, when rehoused any information pertaining to image was transfered onto the sleeve handwritten in pencil - all images in this box are from a binder labeled 'Photo Search List.' 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.
Box 349: Flower Girls Materials, 1932-2000
Contains materials such as newpaper clippings, programs, invitations, photos, and other documents related to the Flower Girls of the Central City Opera in the years 1932 to 2000.
Box 350: Flower Girls Materials, 1978-2004
Contains materials such as newspaper clippings, programs, invitations, photos, and other documents to the Flower Girls of the Central City Opera in the years 1978-2004.
Box 354: Fundraising Materials, 1973-1995
This box contains materials related to fund raising activities and campaigns for the Central City Opera from the years 1973-1995. This includes materials of the Central City Opera House Guild and other fund raising groups. It also contains administrative materials from 1932 to 1993, as well as undated administative materials.
Box 358: CCOHA Board Minutes, 1990-2012
This box contains (38) folders of CCOHA board meeting minutes from the years 1990 to 2012.
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