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Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)

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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 172: Production Posters, 1949-1968

 File — Box M123.0172: Series M123.04 [Barcode: U186022650295]
Identifier: M123.04.0172
Abstract This box contains posters for Central City productions. Each production has 2 copies of each poster. Productions include "The Critique," "Cactus Flower," "The Miracle Worker," "The Odd Couple," "La Boheme" and "Of Mice and Men," "Gilbert and Sullivan," "Central City Art Fair," "The Merry Widow," "Don Pasquale," "A Masked Ball," "Carmen," "The Italian Girl in Algiers," "The Ballad of Baby Doe," "Manon," "Barber of Seville," "Madama Butterfly," "The Lady from Colorado," "Mary, Mary," "La...
Dates: 1949-1968

Box 173: Financial Files, 1933

 File — Box M123.0173: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186022650261]
Identifier: M123.01.0173

Box 174: Publicity Committee Scrapbook, 1963-1965

 File — Box M123.0174: Series M123.04 [Barcode: U186023271078]
Identifier: M123.04.0174
Abstract

This box contains (1) scrapbook from the Central City Publicity Committee from 1963-1965.

Dates: 1963-1965

Box 175: Costume Designs

 File — Box M123.0175: Series M123.05 [Barcode: U186022650279]
Identifier: M123.05.0175
Abstract

This box contains costume designs by Edward M. Stevenson and Charles Le Maire.

Dates: 1850-2008

Box 176: Costume Designs, 1947

 File — Box M123.0176: Series M123.05 [Barcode: U186022650253]
Identifier: M123.05.0176
Abstract

This box contains costume designs from the productions 'Martha' and 'Fidelio' both performed during the 1947 festival season at the Cenrtal City Opera House. Costume designs by Mary P. Schenck.

Dates: 1947

Box 177: Illustrations

 File — Box M123.0177: Series M123.05 [Barcode: U186022650245]
Identifier: M123.05.0177
Abstract This box contains sketches of the sets for the CCOH productions 'Tosca' during the 1956 season, 'Fidelio' during the 1947 season and two unknown productions. Sketches of CCOHA affiliates Anne Evans, Frank St Leger and Robert Edmond Jones. Box also contains many illustrations for various programs for unknown Opera House Festivals, sketches of Central City and Central City Flags, plaque designs for structures in Central City and Certificate of Incorportation for Tabor Fire, Tabor Mining and...
Dates: 1850-2008

Box 178: Critique Committee Scrapbook and Unknown Scrapbook, 1931-1949

 File — Box M123.0178: Series M123.04 [Barcode: U186023271086]
Identifier: M123.04.0178
Abstract

This box contains (2) scrapbooks. (1) scrapbook is from the 1949 Central City Critique Committee. The other scrapbook from 1931-1949. It is not clear if the second scrapbook is from the Critique Committee.

Dates: 1931-1949

Box 179: Financial Ledgers, 1977-1981

 File — Box M123.0179: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186022650677]
Identifier: M123.01.0179

Box 180: Clippings and Slides, 1953-1971

 File — Box M123.0180: Series M123.04 [Barcode: U186022650685]
Identifier: M123.04.0180
Abstract

This box contains newspaper clippings pertaining to Central City and the Central City Opera House productions from 1969-1971 from Colorado newspapers; Slides with unknown association to Central City Opera House, from various events in 1953, 1954, 1960 and two slides unknown.

Dates: 1953-1971

Box 181: CCOHA General Record Books and Reconcilement Books, 1903-1968

 File — Box M123.0181: Series M123.01 [Barcode: U186022650693]
Identifier: M123.01.0181
Abstract

'Central City Opera House Association General Record Book,' three volumes; 1938-1941, October 25, 1946-September 30, 1947, October 1, 1967- September 30, 1968. 'Reconcilement Book,' five volumes; 1903-1906, 1906-1909, 1909-1911, 1911-1915, 1915-1915.

Dates: 1903-1968

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