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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 2694 Collections and/or Records:

Mannequin from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00005
Abstract

Photograph of a mannequin in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00006
Abstract

Photograph of a mannequin in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin's from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00001
Abstract

Photograph of two mannequin's in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign in display reads, "Ours alone in all this world...created just for us! Central City Fashions by Sir James... Of these stunning Central City prints designed by the famous artists Lee Parzio... three designs on (illegible), Central City Opera House Panaorama, Cntral City 1955 festival Scenes, Central City Miner's Scene."

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin's from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00002
Abstract

Photograph of two mannequin's in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign in display reads, "Ours alone in all this world...created just for us! Central City Fashions by Sir James... Of these stunning Central City prints designed by the famous artists Lee Parzio... three designs on (illegible), Central City Opera House Panaorama, Cntral City 1955 festival Scenes, Central City Miner's Scene."

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin's from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00003
Abstract

Photograph of two mannequin's in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado. Sign in display reads, "Ours alone in all this world...created just for us! Central City Fashions by Sir James... Of these stunning Central City prints designed by the famous artists Lee Parzio... three designs on (illegible), Central City Opera House Panaorama, Cntral City 1955 festival Scenes, Central City Miner's Scene."

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin's from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00004
Abstract

Photograph of two mannequin's in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1950-1969

Mannequin's from the 1955 Fashion Show

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0076.0011.00007
Abstract

Photograph of two mannequin's in a display for the annual Central City fashion show in 1955 in the Opera House in Central City, Colorado.

Dates: 1950-1969

Manuscript of ''Carmen'', 1953

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0047.0003.00005
Abstract

Photograph of the manuscript for the opera ''Carmen'' which was produced and directed at the Central City Opera by Herbert Graf, a stage director from the Metropolitan Opera who worked with the Central City Opera.

Dates: 1953

Marcia Baldwin, 1966

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0004.00001
Abstract

Portrait of Marcia Baldwin, a mezzo soprano singer with the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1966 production of "The Italian Girl in Algiers."

Dates: 1966

Marcia Baldwin, 1966

 Item
Identifier: M123.03.0036.0004.00002
Abstract

Portrait of Marcia Baldwin, a mezzo soprano singer with the Metropolitan Opera who performed with the Central City Opera in the 1966 production of "The Italian Girl in Algiers."

Dates: 1966

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