Contents
Collection Access
1601 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614
LaJulia Rhea papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- LaJulia Rhea papers
- Identifier
- BMRC.CHM.RHEA
- Repository
- Chicago History Museum
- Language
- English
- Size
- 0.2 Linear feet
- Dates
- 1928-1984
- Creator
- Rhea, La Julia
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, newsclippings, concert programs, autobiographical booklet, and other papers of LaJulia Rhea, the first African American to audition at the Metropolitan Opera House and America's first black artist to star with a major opera company (which occurred in Chicago in 1937).
Processing Information note
This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 October 5 by Andrew Steadham.