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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:

Box 291: Negatives, 1959-1960

 File — Box M123.0291: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331025]
Identifier: M123.03.0291
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1959-1960

Box 292: Negatives, 1960-1968

 File — Box M123.0292: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024331033]
Identifier: M123.03.0292
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1960-1968

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 296: Negatives

 File — Box M123.0296: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024330388]
Identifier: M123.03.0296
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1932-2013

Box 297: Negatives

 File — Box M123.0297: Series M123.03 [Barcode: U186024330370]
Identifier: M123.03.0297
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1932-2013

Box 349: Flower Girls Materials, 1932-2000

 File — Box M123.0349: Series M123.09 [Barcode: U186024716568]
Identifier: M123.09.0349
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1932-2000

Box 350: Flower Girls Materials, 1978-2004

 File — Box M123.0350: Series M123.09 [Barcode: U186024716576]
Identifier: M123.09.0350
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1978-2004

Box 354: Fundraising Materials, 1973-1995

 File — Box M123.0354: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186024716615]
Identifier: M123.01.0354
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1973-1995

Box 358: CCOHA Board Minutes, 1990-2012

 File — Box M123.0358: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186024716657]
Identifier: M123.01.0358
Abstract

This box contains (38) folders of CCOHA board meeting minutes from the years 1990 to 2012.

Dates: 1990-2012

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