Image / Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink among U. S. C. graduating class, Los Angeles, 1922

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Title: Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink among U. S. C. graduating class, Los Angeles, 1922
Date Created and/or Issued: June 15, 1922
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink, famous operatic contralto, received an honorary Doctor of Music from U.S.C. in 1922.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Record Class Graduated," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jun 1922: II2.
Madam Schumann-Heink sits at the front and center of the graduates lined up for a photograph. Her head is turned toward Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, president of the University of Southern California. The group is seated in front of the College of Liberal Arts building.
Text from negative sleeve: Schumann-Heink, Madam USC degree x Historical
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11583
ark:/21198/zz002h9njs
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Graduation ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Opera singers
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
Kleinsmid, Rufus Bernhard von, 1875-1964
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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