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Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa – Antique Print

Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa — historic photograph
Interior view, Opera House, Traer, Iowa. Historic photograph from the Opera Houses 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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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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This interior view shows the Opera House in Traer, a small town in Tama County, Iowa, and the photograph was likely taken between 1900 and 1940. In that period, opera houses in towns of this size were often the main public hall, hosting traveling theater companies, lectures, school programs, dances, and community meetings. Their auditoriums usually reflected the civic pride of the towns that built them, with rows of seats, a raised stage, and decorative trim. Interior photographs like this one help show how such halls were arranged and furnished before many were remodeled, converted, or lost.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1900 and 1940]
SubjectsTheaters--Iowa--Traer--1900-1940. Opera houses--Iowa--Traer--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 999 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-113396

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