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Ernestine Schumann-Heink performs at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, between 1925 and 1935

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Title: Ernestine Schumann-Heink performs at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, between 1925 and 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: May 30, 1935
1935-05-30
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Schumann-Heink, in a dress gown and hat, stands before a microphone on a platform in the middle of a stadium. behind her a woman plays a Steinway piano and army officials salute to the right.
This photograph appears with the headline, "Nation and City Pay Tribute to Heroes of War in memorial Day Services," Los Angeles Times, 31 may 1935: 16.
Text from newspaper caption: MME. SCHUMANN-HEINK SINGS AT COLISEUM; The audience of more than 25,000 in attendance at the memorial Day services at the Coliseum thrilled with patriotic fervor when Mme. Schumann-Heink sang the stirring "Star-Spangled Banner." Times photo.
Text from negative sleeve: Schumann-Heink, Madam USC degree x Historical
Handwritten on negative: Mme. Schumann-Heink
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11586
ark:/21198/zz002h9nnb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Stadiums--California--Los Angeles
Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Memorial Day
Pianos
Opera singers
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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