May's Opera House and Jas. W. Brown Tailor Shop – Vintage Poster Wall Art
(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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May's Opera House and Jas. W. Brown Tailor Shop
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This photograph records a particular pairing of businesses in Piqua, Ohio: May's Opera House sharing a street frontage with the tailoring shop of Jas. W. Brown. Small-town opera houses of this era were usually multipurpose halls on upper floors or in adjoining blocks, hosting traveling theatrical companies, lecturers, concerts, and local entertainments before motion pictures took over most of that trade. Ground-floor commercial space like a tailor's shop helped support such buildings. Because the record gives only a date range, the picture is best read as a snapshot of a main street during the early twentieth century, when many American towns depended on this kind of mixed-use block.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between 1902 and 1930] |
| Subjects | Opera houses--Ohio--Piqua (Miami County)--1900-1930. Tailor shops--Ohio--Piqua (Miami County)--1900-1930. Theaters--Ohio--Piqua (Miami County)--1900-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,087 × 4,099 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210672 |
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