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The charity ball last night at the Metropolitan Opera House – Historic Print

The charity ball last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1886 — antique engraving
The charity ball last night at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1886. Antique engraving from the Opera Houses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title places this scene at the Metropolitan Opera House, where a charity ball took place the night before the engraving ran. The Met opened in 1883 on Broadway as a rival to the older Academy of Music, and its large auditorium quickly became a favored setting for New York society's benefit balls. The engraving by Coultaus appeared in *The Daily Graphic*, one of the city's early illustrated dailies, which used engravings like this to bring evening society news to readers the next day. The publication date and page in the record are noted as unverified.

Created / published1886
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesEngraving by Coultaus. Illus. in: The Daily Graphic, 1886 Jan 20, v. 39, no. 4005, p. 541(?). Reference copy may be available in SSF - Opera Houses. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Opera houses; Fashion; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145886

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