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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 26 Collections and/or Records:

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00010
Abstract

Photograph of mannequin's in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign in window reads, " Fashion History will be made here! Lerner Shops brings back the old-fashioned dollar when we open August 21, 1952. "

Dates: 1952

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00011
Abstract

Photograph of mannequin's in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1952

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00012
Abstract Photograph of mannequin's in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign reads, "1870-1890 Late Victorian Age, in spite of a serious depression in the early 70's which sent many gentlewomen into industry - there were those who were presented at Court in many capitals of Europe. During the late years of this decade many great international marriages were made and many American Trousseaux were amplified in Paris Vienna...
Dates: 1952

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00013
Abstract

Photograph of mannequin in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign reads, "1881 Wedding Gown worn by the wife of Gov. James B. Grant (1883-1885)."

Dates: 1952

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00014
Abstract

Photograph of mannequin's in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1952

Window Display in the Lerner Shops, 1952

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0012.00015
Abstract

Photograph of mannequin in a window display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1952 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign reads, "1881 Wedding Gown worn by the wife of Gov. James B. Grant (1883-1885)."

Dates: 1952

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