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Title: Autographed publicity portrait of Marguerita (Marguerite) Sylva
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1922
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 Belgian born mezzo-soprano Sylva, dressed in her signature role as Carmen, wearing mantilla, holding what appears to be a cigarette. Gelatin silver print, monochromatic. Printed on the photo is her name, "Marguerita Sylva". Stamped on the back of this image is "Sylva Management, 101 West 80th Street, New York City"
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: bbf00557.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll2/id/99
Language: English
Subject: Concerts--California--Los Angeles
Photographs--Portraits
Signatures (Writing)
Publicity photographs
Musicians
Musicians--Autographs
Costumes--Spanish--1910-1940
Mezzo-sopranos
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Operas & operettas
Operas--19th century
Talent agents (Music)
Vocalists
Women singers
Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen
Mantillas
Headgear
Frankel, Bessie Bartlett, 1884-1959
Sylva, Marguerite, 1875-1957
Place: Los Angeles (United States)
Source: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection, Box 9, Folder 43
Relation: Bessie Bartlett Frankel Collection of Travel and Early Los Angeles Music - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll2

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