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Title
Opening of the Loring Opera House in Riverside on January 8, 1889
Date Created and/or Issued
1889-01-08
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of the opening of the Loring Opera House in Riverside on January 8, 1889. Shown is the closing act of "Lolanthe", an amateur production. A group of actors stand in costume, apparently dressed as royalty. At center an actress wearing a crown holds a spear to the neck of a second actress who falls into the arms of an actor in a powdered wig. A set depicting a city street stands behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8201
USC-0-1-1-8332 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43000
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8201
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43000.jpg
Subject
Loring Opera House
Riverside County--Riverside
Theaters
Drama
Performance sites
Time Period
1889-01-08
Place
California
Riverside
USA
Source
43000 [Accession number]
CHS-43000 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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