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Series III: Photographs of Rosa Ponselle

(1919-1932, n.d.), .42 linear feet

Photographs of Rosa Ponselle are primarily publicity portraits for operas in which she performed. Secrist has labeled the verso of the majority of these photographs with the title of each opera as well as where and when the photograph was published, if known. These individual portraits of Rosa Ponselle in costume are arranged alphabetically by opera name. Two folders of group photographs are filed at the end of the series. Most of the photographs are later copy prints (probably dating from the 1950s), but some originals are included.

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Individual portraits of Rosa Ponselle in costume are arranged alphabetically by opera name; group photographs are filed in two folders at the end of the series. The number in parentheses after each subject indicates the number of images available.

Photographs of Rosa Ponselle:
Box (Call no.) Folder Title Date
Ponselle, Rosa - publicity portraits from:
2 (RPA 00xxx) 19 L’Africaine (4) [3 are copies of 1922-3 originals] ca. 1922, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 20 L’Amore dei Tre Re (14) [most are copies of 1928-1930 originals] 1928, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 21 Andrea Chénier (5) [copies of 1923-5 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 22 Carmen (34) [copies of 1935-6 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 23 Cavalleria Rusticana (7) [copies of 1934, 1937 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 24 Don Carlos (8) [copies of 1921-4 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 25 Ernani (9) [copies of 1921-ca. 1929 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 26 La Forza del Destino (4) [most are copies of ca. 1927 originals] 1927, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 27 Luisa Miller (3) [copies from 1929-30 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 28 Oberon (3) [2 are copies of 1919-20 originals] 1919, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 29 Le Roi d’Ys (3) 1922
2 (RPA 00xxx) 30 La Traviata (10) [copies from 1930-1, and 1934 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 31 Il Trovatore (4) [copies from ca. 1933 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 32 La Vestale (10) [some are copies from 1925-6, and 1933] 1925-6, 1933
2 (RPA 00xxx) 33 William Tell (Guillaume Tell) (11) [some are copies of 1923 originals] 1923, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 34 Miscellaneous and unidentified (12) [most are copies from 1917-1927 originals] 1925, n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 35-36 Group photographs (57) [most are copies of 1925-1952 originals] n.d.
2 (RPA 00xxx) 37 Negatives (4) n.d.

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