Image / [Gaetano Merola]

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Title: [Gaetano Merola]
Creator: Johnston, Nicholas
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-1939
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2019-0280.
Waist-length portrait. "To my dear friend Karl C. Weber very cordially Gaetano Merola" -- handwritten along bottom.
Born in Naples in 1881. Emigrated to the United States in 1899, worked as conductor with several companies before moving to San Francisco in 1904. Organized his first opera company in 1923, founded the San Francisco Opera. Died in 1953.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001643043CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Merola, Gaetano--Portraits
Italian Americans--California--San Francisco--Portraits
Conductors
Operas & operettas--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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