Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Allied Arts records
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Allied Arts
Abstract
Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Allied Arts Corporation management was taken over by Harry and Sarah Zelzer in 1948 and became the premier agency for bringing performing artists to Chicago. Important artists and groups include the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Glenn Gould, and singers Tito Schipa and Judy Garland. Collection also includes original photographs taken in venues...
Dates:
1913-1997
Auditorium Theater programs
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Auditorium
Abstract
Programs and other materials for events taking place in the early years at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Envisioned as a world-class theater and opera house by Chicago impresario Ferdinand Peck, the Adler and Sullivan-designed Auditorium opened in 1889 on the corner of Congress and Michigan Avenue.
Dates:
1888-1938
Thomas Conolly papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Conolly
Abstract
Material collected by Thomas Conolly, decorative plasterer and handyman for fifty-two years at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, which consists mainly of autographs and autographed historical letters. Also, bookplates, clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, a few items relating to the Chicago Civic Opera Company and the Auditorium Theater, several photographs and pictures, and a group of personal letters to Conolly.
Dates:
1800-1944
Filtered By
- Subject: Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
- Arts -- Management -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Autographs (manuscripts) 1
- Ballet companies -- Photographs 1
- Bookplates 1
- Clippings (information artifacts) 1
- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950 1
- Cosmetics -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Music -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Opera -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Opera companies -- Photographs 1
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
- Programs 1
- Souvenir programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Souvenir programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Theater programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
- Theater programs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
- Theaters -- Illinois -- Chicago 1 + ∧ less
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