Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink celebrating the groundbreaking ceremony for the Los Angeles Soap Company building, 1904. Madam Schumann-Heink, then known as "the world's greatest contralto", can be seen standing with a group of men, waving a champagne bottle in the air, next to the construction site where the new Los Angeles Soap Company building was to be built. According to a note attached to the photograph, the groundbreaking was for a new building meant to replace the old Los Angeles Soap Company building (seen behind Madam Schumann-Heink and others), which was damaged by a fire.
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image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographs
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