Offered in this lot is a Rare Original Imperial Cabinet Card of Emma Juch, circa 1894. Provenance: From the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona. Emma Johanna Antonia Juch (1861-1939) was a soprano opera singer of the 1880s and 1890s from Vienna, Austria. She sang with several companies and later formed her own company. Juch was admired in the United States and England during a grand opera and concert career spanning thirteen years. Juch combined singing in concerts and festivals with a short English-language operatic career. Because Juch exemplifies a typical prima donna of the late nineteenth century, her life provides a perspective on the American cultural landscape that a focus on star performers cannot capture. Like all female singers, she had to negotiate between competing stereotypes about divas and the nineteenth-century distrust of women who led public lives. In response to these pressures, she constructed an image of a vigorous American singer who nevertheless understood her expected role in society. The imperial cabinet card was photographed for the Indianapolis May Musical Festival May 27th, 28th, 29th. Juch's signature is below her portrait. The cream coloured imperial cabinet card is in preserved condition in a clear protective sleeve, top right corner cracked, age tanning and foxing observed. Measures 6.75"W x 9.75"L, sleeve is 7"W x 11"L, combined weight is U6.