Image / Autographed publicity portrait of singer Cecil Arden

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Title: Autographed publicity portrait of singer Cecil Arden
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923
Publication Information: Elzin Studio, New York, New York
Ella Strong Denison Library; Claremont Colleges Digital Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/.
Description: Photograph of operatic mezzo-soprano singer Arden, wearing costume from her recital program, "Carmen's Dream", with headdress (mantilla with peineta, or large comb), earrings, sleeveless jacket (gilet), necklace. A large decorative fan with images of birds is in the background. Autographed "To Mrs. Bessie Bartlett Frankel, In friendly remembrance, Cecil Arden", in white ink. Gelatin silver print, monochromatic, glossy paper.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00470.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/44
Language: English
Subject: Concerts--California--Los Angeles
Musicians--United States--Autographs
Women singers
Photographs--Portraits
Signatures (Writing)
Publicity photographs--1910-1930
Concert tours--United States--20th century
Costumes
Costumes--Spanish--1910-1940
Painted fans
Operas & operettas--1870-1910
Sopranos (Singers)--United States
Operas--19th century
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen
Mantillas
Headgear
Arden, Cecil
Bartlett, Bessie Herbert, 1884-1959
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875
Place: Los Angeles (United States)
Source: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 9, Folder 1

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