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[Astor Theatre - The Great Ziegfeld, New York City. Broadway & 45th St.] – Historic Print

[Astor Theatre - The Great Ziegfeld, New York City. Broadway & 45th St.], c1936. — historic photograph
[Astor Theatre - The Great Ziegfeld, New York City. Broadway & 45th St.], c1936.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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A window into the past: [Astor Theatre - The Great Ziegfeld, New York City. Broadway & 45th St.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Astor Theatre - The Great Ziegfeld, New York City. Broadway & 45th St.]

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Marquee lights announce *The Great Ziegfeld* at the Astor theater, on the corner of Broadway and 45th Street, so the picture ties a 1936 film to a well-known Times Square house. The movie is an MGM musical biography of Florenz Ziegfeld, whose Follies set the standard for lavish revue on Broadway for decades. Views like this one show the theater district in the 1930s, when movie houses and live stages lined the same blocks and the neon signs competed for attention.

Created / publishedc1936.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Theatres.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147734

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