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Enrico Caruso in Costume
Performing Arts in San Francisco
A sampling of some of the performers that have graced San Francsico since its early days.
This chapter tells the story of some of the actors, actresses and dancers whose performances have graced San rancisco since the gold rush days, including the brother of the assasin of Abraham Lincoln, the world's first (?) device for producing a concert of scents and the arrest of an actor for impersonating Jesus Christ.
Early San Francisco Theater Early Theater
THE CHRISTENSEN BROTHERS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO BALLET SF Ballet
Jesus Arrested! San Francisco, April 17, 1879 The &Passion
S.F. Performing Arts Library and Museum SF Performing Arts Library and Museum
Edwin Booth - Actor Edwin &Booth
Bert Williams - Vaudevillian Bert &Williams
Chinese Opera in SF Chinese &Opera
Isadora Duncan Intro Isadora &Duncan
Lotta Crabtree in SF Lotta Cra&btree
Martinettis in SF M&artinettis
SADAKICHI HARTMANN Sadakichi Hartmann
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SF Performing Arts Library and Museum - Publisher or Photographer
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