Central City Opera House Association (Central City, Colo.)

Abstract

These unique items are wrapped in tissue paper or stored in photo sleeves with item numbers written on objects tags or on the photo sleeves. The item numbers reflect the original box and folder the items were originally in before being removed for separate storage.

Abstract The Flower Girls were a fundraising tradition started by Anne Evans with the first Central City Opera Festival season in 1932. Debutantes from prominent Denver families would be selected by a "secret committee" to act as hostesses of the opera's opening nights, handing out nosegay bouquets to opera-goers to throw onstage as the permiere performance curtain closed. The materials in the first three boxes of this series were put together by Barbara Ferguson, who has been involved...