[Interiors of unidentified moving picture theaters] – Historic Print
![[Interiors of unidentified moving picture theaters], c1909. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/33/335864cee26c-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with [Interiors of unidentified moving picture theaters], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The theater itself is unidentified, but the view was made by the Decorators' Supply Co. of Chicago, a firm that sold materials for decorating public interiors, so the picture may have been meant to show what a finished room could look like. Around 1909, the nickelodeon boom was filling storefronts and converted halls with rows of chairs, screens, and painted walls, and photographs like this one record how inexpensively early film houses were often dressed. Its copyright line makes it a useful trade record of movie-house design in the period, even though the specific room cannot be placed.
| Created / published | c1909. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint copyrighted by Decorators' Supply Co., Chicago. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Motion Pictures; Theaters. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,351 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155673 |
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