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Opera House
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The Oshkosh Grand Opera House. This is the interior elevated view showing the curtain painted by Louis Kindt of Kenosha, which depicts a scene from Goethe's "Herman and Dorthea"; the rest of the decor is by J. Frank Waldo of Oshkosh.
1883
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Oshkosh Opera House
1900
Stereograph of the interior of the Oshkosh Opera House, located on High Street. This opera house was built in 1883 and was renovated in the 1980s.
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1935
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