Hunter Opera House Collection (2008.95)
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Guide to Hunter Opera House Collection – 2008.95 ______________________________________________________________________________ Reference code US CoGrCGM 2008.95 Title: Hunter Opera House Collection Processed by Patsy White Finding aid prepared by Patsy White Name and location of repository Hazel E Johnson Research Center Greeley History Museum 714 8th Street Greeley, CO 80631 Phone: (970)351-9219 Email: [email protected] URL: http://greeleymuseums.com/ Collection Summary Dates 1906-1907 Bulk dates 1906-1907 Level of description Subseries Extent .25 cubic feet . Creator(s) Marvin Woolf Administrative/Biographical History Brief History of the Hunter Opera House (Greeley Opera House) The Hunter Opera House, also called the Greeley Opera House, in Greeley, CO was opened in 1886. It was located on the second floor of the building at 8th and 8th. It was built to serve as a venue for theatrical and musical productions for the area between Cheyenne and Denver. Instrumental in bringing the theater to Greeley was S. D. Hunter, a local cattleman. He was a Partner in the Hunter and West Bank, which occupied the first floor of the building. The theater cost $85,000 and was the largest and finest in the state north of Denver. It seated 800 people and the stage was built by the carpenters from the Tabor Opera House in Denver. The theater featured traveling theater and companies and musicians, as well as local talent. The programs included admonitions to the audience such as: - Do not applaud with your feet. - Do not spit tobacco on the floor. 1 - Do not eat peanuts in the hall. - Do not whistle or shout in applauding. - Do not stand on the chairs. - Do not rush for the doors before the curtain drops. When the Sterling Theater was built in Greeley in 1911, theatricals were taken to that venue and the 8th and 8th Building became mainly businesses. Scope and Content This collection consists of 75 programs from the Greeley Opera House (15 from 1906, 42 from 1907, and 18 of unknown date) and newspaper advertisements for two of the productions. Programs included are from the following shows: A Message from Mars (1906); Arizona (1906); The Royal Chef (1906); The Girl and the Bandit (1906); The Missouri Girl (1906); the Juvenile Bostonians (1906); the Old Clothes Man (1906); Parsifal – The Sacred Festival Play (1906); The Maid and the Mummy (1906); The Devil’s Auction (1906); Two Merry Tramps (1906); The Merry Wives of Windsor (1906); Faculty – Denver Conservatory (1906); The Strollers (1906); Buster Brown (1906); The Geisha (1907); The Sign of the Cross (1906); King Richard the Third (1906); Ole Olson (1907); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1907); At Yale (1907); Tot’s Carnival – Public High (1907); Kerry Gown (1907); Old Arkansas (1907); The Ragged Messenger (1907); Sergeant Kitty (1907); The Tenderfoot (1907); Quincy Adams Sawyer (1907); The Scout’s Revenge (1907); Monte Cristo (1907): A Daughter of Colorado (1907); Alice Sit by the Fire (1907); Julius Caesar, (1907); Jakey, Mikey and Ikey (1907); Cyrano de Bergerac (1907); Florodora (1907); The Holy City (1907), Big Minstrels (1907); On the Frontier (1907); The Yankee Regent (1907); Tilly Olson (1907); A Desperate Change (1907); Are You Crazy (1907); The County Chairman (1907); The Lion and the Mouse (1907); The Peck’s Bad Boy (1907); The Time, The Place and the Girl (1907); The Choir Singer (1907); Isle of Spice (1907); Charles W. Clark (1907); Zira (1907); Heir to the Hoorah (1907); The Blue Moon (1907) Fortnightly Musical Club (1907); Mayor of Tokio (1907); Rich and Prin Famous Minstrels (1907); The Girl Who has Everything (n.d.); The Walls of Jericho (n.d.); the District Leader (n.d.); Max Figman (n.d.); Mrs. Temple’s Telegram (n.d.); Cavallos’s Orchestra (n.d.); Anthony and Cleopatra (n.d.); Rufus Rastas Minstrels (n.d.); The Karltons (n.d.); The Man of the Hour (n.d.); Fritz Kreisler Recital (n.d.); George Primrose’s All Star Minstrels (n.d.); The Black Crook (n.d.); The Land of Nod (n.d.); Red Feather (n.d.); Mrs. Warren’s Profession (n.d.); Al G. Fields Greater Minstrels (n.d.); My Wife’s Family (n.d.). System of arrangement As no original order could be established, materials from this collection have been interfiled in an imposed order. Conditions governing access There are no restrictions on the access of this collection. Conditions governing reproduction & use There are no restrictions on the use of this collection. 2 Languages and scripts of the materials English Custodial history The materials in this collection were created and assembled by various sources. Immediate source of acquisition The collection was donated by Marvin Woolf Related archival materials 2008.95 Notes Preferred citation: City of Greeley Museum’s Permanent Collection, #2008.95 Names Abbott, Ed Abbott, Eva Abel, Neal Adams, Charles E. Adams, Charles R. Adams, Genevieve Adams, Lionel Adams, Pearl Adelman, Joseph Adler, Lou Ahrens, Hazel Alexander, Lillian Alexander, William Allard, James Allen, Edward Allen, F. M. Allen, James T. Allen, Olive Alretus, Orette Anderson, Jim Anderson, Nettie Andrews, T. Applebee, James K. Appleton, Frank Appleton, Zaidee Archer, Donald Armstrong, J. R. Armstrong, Paul Armstrong, Wilbur 3 Arnold, Edith Aronson, Nathan Ashby, Irene Ashley, Arthur Astor, Camille Atkinson, Wilbur Aubrey, Jane Aubry, M. Ella Aulston, Mabel Avery, W. E. Aves, Charles Ayre, Ignon Bacon, James Bailey, Fred Bailey, Lena Bailey, Leona Baird, Elsie Baker, Grace Baker, William Ball, Leona Balliet, Lloyd Bardine, Effie Barker, Irving Barnes, Freeman Barr, C. G. Barrett, George L. Barrett, John T. Barrett, Wilson Barrison, Mabel Barry, Tam Bates, Alfred Baxter, Mildred Beamish, Arthur Beard, Billy Beaumont, Alfred Beaureguard, Happy Beck, Edward Bell, A. B. Bell, Paul S. Benhan, Earl Bennett, Bessie Bennett, Osborne Bennett, Sam Bergelin, A. W. Bergen, Thurlow Berlin, Lula 4 Bern, Edna Bernard, Frederick Bernstein, Joseph Berry, Joseph C. Bertrand, Frank Betts, George Biala, Sara D. Bicknell, O. M. Birch, Jack Bixley, Edgar Black, Agnes Blackburn, Artie M. Blackstone, Bertha Blair, Sam Blind, Erick Bloomquest, George Bogues, George Borden, William Bosan, Alonzo Bosworth, Kent Bosworth, William Bothner, Eda Boulaine, Gussie Bowen, Katherine Boyer, Clifford W. Boyer, Willis Brackett, Louise Bradley, Alma Brandon, Ethel Breese, R. A. Brickland, Gladys Bridges, Ruby Briggs, Tome E. Brill, Ned Britt, Ralph Broadhurst, George Broderick, Robert Brone, Benedict Brown, Carl R. Brown, Charles A. Brown, George Brown, Maud Brownell, John Charles Browning, Bessie Browning, Charles Browning, Flora 5 Browns, Ben Bruce, Alf Buck, Hugh Buck, Bernice Buckingham, Lillian Buckner, William Budge, Jessie Buehler, Blanche Burdette, William T. Burke, John Burnham, Margaret Burns, Bertha Burt, C. D. Burton, Gideon Burton, Thomas Busey, Fred Butler, Arthur Butterfield, Everett Byington, Spring Byrd, F. Julian Byron, Helen Cain, Jessie Cain, R. D. Caine, George R. Caldwell, Alvin B. Caldwell, E. J. Callan, J. Paul Callison, Cyrus Camfield, Elizabeth Campbell, Kittie Campbell, Mary Cantwell, James Carey, Eva Carleton, Alexander G. Carlorn, Will Carrier, Francis Carroll, George Carroll, Isabelle Carroll, J. George Carter, Anna Carter, Edward Carter, Henry Carter, John Carter, Paul Carter, Tom Cary, Annie 6 Cary, W. A. Castleberry, George Caylor, John Centre, George Chambers, Albert Charton, Loudon Chatterton, William T. Chenoweth, E. D. Chester, Ruth Child, Harry Christie, James Clark, C. E. Clark, Charles W. Clark, Ed Clark, Jack J. Clark, Rae Clarke, Creston Clay, Clarence Clay, Clinton Clayton, Mary Clemmens, Camern Clemson, Osborne Clifford, Marie Clifton, Emily Clifton, Ethel Cluzette, Jules Cochrane, George C. Coever, Lawrence Coffman, Joseph O. Coghlan, Rose Cole, Rose Coleman, Clark Collins, Ed Collins, F. Collins, Harry Collins, John Colver, Lawrence Commons, Aimee Conaughy, Louis K. Conners, Jack Convey, Loretta Conway, J. A. Conway, Vera M. Cook, Jane Cooley, Hollis Cooley, James 7 Cooper, Harry Corey, Charles Cort, John Cosgrove, Myrtle Cotter, Frank Coughlan, Rose. Coulter, J. B. Courier, Cathrine Courier, William Couzzens, Rea Craerin, R. G. Craig, Frank Crane, Dorothy Crawford, Charles Crisp, George Crofford, Harrison Croley, Vida Crosby, Harry D. Cross, Alfred F. Cruttwell, P. C. Cubine, C. D. Cullington, William Cunningham, Rola Curtis, Allen Curtis, Louise Cutter, Royal Dailey, Joseph Dale, Ed Dallas, Madelaine Daly, Helen Orr Daly, Orlando Darlington, Will C. Dashiell, Willard Davenport, Helen Davereaux, Dale Davidson, John Davidson, Thomas Davis, Bessie Fox Davis, Frank Davis, Harriet Davis, Leroy Davis, Thomas L. Dawson, Iona De Kraft, S. Ives Dean, Ralph Deane, Arthur 8 DeForest, Fred Del Vecchio, Marie Delane, Alice Delbridge, Lucy Delvin, Bert Demar, Madge Denier, Albert Denno, George W. Denton, Herbert L. Depoy, Leroy Deskan, Beatrice Desmond, Ferol DeVous, Will Dewey, Earle Dewey, Edward Dexter, Gerie Diskin, Molly Dixon, Albert Dixon, H. Doerner, Armin W. Dolson, Alfred, L. Donaldson, Thomas Donnelly, Dorothy Donoghue, C. F. Doone, Allen Dornton, Henry Dotzier, Alfred Dowall, Nellie Drach, Mary Draper, Bert Drew, Grace Drew, Luella Drofnah, Marie Dudley, Mae Dumont, Leo Dunn, Ethel Durant, Addie J. Earle, Edward Earle, Eleanor Ebert, Thomas Edes, George A. Edgerley, William Edman, Harry Edmonds, Joe Edrige, Charles Edwards, C. 9 Edwards, Edith Edwards, Ethel Edwards, Harry Edwards, L. A. Edwardson, J. P. Egan, P. J. Eggstein, G. Elder, Alice Ellwood, Virginia Emerson, R. W. Emery, May English, Adelaide