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Title
Performance of Dan Totheroh's Tamalpa, the 1921 Mountain Play on Mount Tamalpais [photograph]
Creator
unknown
Contributor
Mountain Play Association
Cain, Marion Hayes, 1905-1991
Date Created and/or Issued
1921
Publication Information
Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
Contributing Institution
Marin County Free Library
Collection
Mountain Plays, Mount Tamalpais, 1913-1972
Rights Information
unknown
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Description
Performance of Tamalpa, an original play written especially for the Mountain Theater by Dan Totheroh in 1921. Tamalpa, a fanciful pageant celebrating Marin County's early history, was performed 8 times between 1921 and 1970. The Mountain Play Association began its annual production in an outdoor amphitheater on top of Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, in 1913. Shows run for several weekends, beginning each May. This image is from a collection of scrapbooks, deposited with the California Room in 1975, by Mountain Play Association Director, Marion Hayes Cain.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print, b&w ; 7 x 12 cm.
Identifier
csrcl_603
A. 1390.001.207
ark:/13030/kt900039xt
http://contentdm.marinlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/mtp/id/129
Language
English
Subject
Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.)--Mountain Play
Marin County (Calif.)--Mountain Play
Theater--California--Marin County
Actors and actresses
Dramatists
Theater audiences
Mountain Play Association (Mill Valley, Calif.)
Totheroh, Dan
Place
Marin County (Calif.)
Tamalpais, Mount (Calif.)
Mount Tamalpais State Park (Calif.)
Source
Item from Mountain Play Association Scrapbook v. 1, Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library
Relation
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0q2nc5z2
http://marinlibrary.org/californiaroom

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