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. A portrait of Mme. Norma Knupfel Lutge sitting upright in her furs and a hat. 76 year old Norma Lutge is known as America's first female impresario and has devoted half a century to developing musical artists in Los Angeles and San Francisco ever since she came to Los Angeles when she was 18. A close-up of this photograph appears with the article, "Impresario Still Active," Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1936: A10. Handwritten on negative: Madame Norma Knupfel Lutge Text from newspaper caption: Veteran of more than fifty years of battling with temperamental musicians and singers, Mme. Norma Lutge still retains her interest in Los Angeles musical events. [Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 1936: A10] Text from negative sleeve: 3485 - Madame Norma Knupfel Lutge Norma Knupfel Lutge patron of art + music America's first female "impresario" (d. 1939 @ 85) Norma Impresario 2/26/36 [stamped:] Mar 4 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12466 ark:/21198/zz002hmgjd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Theatrical producers & directors--California--Los Angeles Lutge, Norma Knupfel, $d. b. 1859
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