Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa – Vintage Poster
(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 Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa
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Few details survive in the record for this view of the Opera House in Traer, a small town in Tama County, Iowa, but the interior itself is the subject. Between 1900 and 1940, opera houses like this one were the main public halls in many Midwestern towns, hosting traveling theatrical companies, lectures, concerts, school programs, and community dances. Their auditoriums usually combined raked seating, a proscenium stage, and decorative plasterwork, reflecting local pride as much as any architectural ambition. Photographs of these interiors are useful today because many such halls were later remodeled, converted to movie houses, or lost to fire.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1900 and 1940] |
| Subjects | Theaters--Iowa--Traer--1900-1940. Opera houses--Iowa--Traer--1900-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,073 × 4,091 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210676 |
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