L.N. Scott scrapbooks 1892-1937

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L.N. Scott scrapbooks 1892-1937

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Collection is composed of 39 volumes of scrapbooks collected by Louis N. Scott during his tenure as a theater and opera manager in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

54 cubic feet

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Performing Arts Archives, Manuscripts Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6618295

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St. Paul Grand Opera Company.

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St. Paul Metropolitan Opera Company.

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Minneapolis Metropolitan Opera Company.

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Scott, Louis N. d. 1929.

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Louis N. Scott was born Kentucky. In 1876, he was sent to St. Paul by his employer, the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company, a steamboat company owned by William F. Davidson. Six years later, in 1884, W. F. Davidson assigned Scott to take charge of the Grand Opera House in St. Paul, which Scott ran until the building was destroyed by fire in 1888. He then became manager of the Newmarket Theater (1888) followed by the Metropolitan Opera House in St. Paul (1890). He became a part owner of the Me...