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 28 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Frank H. Ricketson Jr. On Stage with Milton Bernet During Unknown Production , 1946-1970
Black and white photograph of CCOHA Board members Milton Bernet (white suit coat)speaking with Frank H. Ricketson Jr., on the CCOH stage during an unknown festival season in an unknown production.
Frank H. Ricketson Jr. Outside Opera House with Affiliates, 1943-1970
Black and white photograph of CCOHA Board president / chairman Frank H. Ricketson Jr. (right), and three unidentifed affiliates standing outside the CCOH in Central City, Colorado during an unknown festival season.
Helen Hayes at Ida Kruse McFarlane Memorial, 1952
Folder contains photographic print of CCOHA actress, Helen Hayes, at the Ida Cruse McFarlane memorial located in Central City, Colorado.
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