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Black and white photograph of City Opera House, Old Settlers of the Grand Traverse Convention, June 10, 1910

Black and white photograph of Front Street featuring City Opera House, late 1950s. Other businesses visible are Sears, Votruba Leather Goods, Michigan Consolidated Gas, and The Cradle Shop.

Black and white photograph of a group dressed up as "Gypsies" with a sign " Attend the Gipsy Encampment City Opera Hall To Night", a project of the Senior class of 1900, Traverse City High School.

Black and white postcard of Front Street, Traverse City, captured from a point just west of the intersection of Front and Union Streets. To the left is the State Bank building, then Union Street, then the Hannah and Lay Store building. To the right…

Black and white photograph of the City Opera House stage curtain, with advertisers listed all over it. Some of the businesses are: Hotel Whiting, Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., J.N. Martinek & Son Jewelers.

The City Opera House (built in 1891), Judson E. Cameron's Billiards and Barber Shop, Votruba Leather Goods Co. and Roscoe's Shoes.

City Opera House, fire curtain from upper gallery.

Two postcards showing the renovated interior of the opera house..
1. The "between acts " screen with a hand painted picture of a lake.
2. Ceiling of the opera house. The names of famous actors and actresses of the period (1891-1920).

Alley view of Masonic Building and City Opera House

The City Opera house fire.