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Title: Autographed publicity portrait of Rosa Ponselle
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931
Publication Information: 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 American soprano Ponselle (Ponzillo), dressed as Violetta from Verdi's opera, "La Traviata". Gelatin silver print, monochromatic. Inscribed on the photograph: "To Mrs. Cecil Frankel Sincerely - Rosa Ponselle 1931"
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00591.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/234
Language: English
Subject: Concerts--California--Los Angeles
Photographs--Portraits
Signatures (Writing)
Publicity photographs
Musicians
Musicians--Autographs
Sopranos (Singers)--United States
Women singers
Vocalists
Operas--19th century
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
Frankel, Bessie Bartlett, 1884-1959
Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981
Place: Los Angeles (United States)
Source: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 10, Folder 9
Relation: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll2

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