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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Polish opera singer Ganna Walska adorned in operatic costume holding a lyre. Ms. Walska was the second wife of Harold Fowler McCorm... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across Mifflin Street towards the Fuller Opera House, which later became the Parkway Theater and was razed in 1954. The City Hall is next doo... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Opera House. Today this building is the Town Hall. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The young Italian operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri in suggestive deshabille, her pearl decorated dress falling off her shoulders. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men stand near the entrance to the Opera House. Below a central clock tower, signboards advertise upcoming performances, including "Bud Hicks', 'The Ya... |
| Date: | 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Olivia Monona wearing a costume worn as a chorus member of the Chicago Opera. The image is a photographic postcard she sent to Oscar Hanke, a violinist wit... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view across street toward the three-story, brick opera house. A horse-drawn carriage is on the street in front. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the A.J. Schneider Music Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, dealers in "pianos, victrolas, records, etc.," with a lineup of well-known opera sing... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of four couples, dressed in late eighteenth century costumes, on the stage of the Fuller Opera House. They are posing as if they are... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of four women in flowing, classical dresses dancing on the stage of the Fuller Opera House. Behind them is a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View across plaza towards the Opera. Caption reads: "The Opera, the most famous of all national theaters, Paris." |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A page from the working script for "The Threepenny Opera" production at the Theatre de Lys in New York City in 1954. The page is from the start of the oper... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Reverse side of a script page for "The Threepenny Opera" with two possible alternate stanzas for the song Mack the Knife; one stanza is typewritten and the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of opera singer, Olivia Monona (Olivia Goldberger) in costume for Carmen. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of opera singer, Olivia Monona (Olivia Goldenberger) likely in costume for an unknown production. |
| Date: | 04 27 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of Metropolitan Opera singers celebrating longtime manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. The surprise ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored portrait of Olivia Monona and her singing partner, Menotti Frascona. The pair is jointly holding a newspaper. Ms. Monona is wearing gloves. |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Olivia Monona sitting in a chair in the Goldenbeger home on East Hamilton Street. Bookshelves cover the wall in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Opera singer, Olivia Monona in costume posing on a bench. |
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