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Opera House block, Mansfield, Pennsylvania – Historic Poster Reproduction

Opera House block, Mansfield, Pennsylvania — historic photograph
Opera House block, Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Historic photograph from the Theater Posters 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: Opera House block, Mansfield, Pennsylvania, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Opera House block, Mansfield, Pennsylvania

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This photograph shows the Opera House block in Mansfield, a borough in north-central Pennsylvania's Tioga County, during the years between 1900 and 1930. Such blocks were common in small American towns, where a commercial building housed shops on the street level and a large hall upstairs. The upper hall served as the town's main venue for traveling theater companies, lectures, concerts, and civic gatherings, so the building was often the social center of the community. Picture postcards and photographs like this one help show how these multi-use buildings shaped the streetscape before movie houses became common.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[between 1900 and 1930]
SubjectsOpera houses--Pennsylvania--Mansfield--1900-1930. Theaters--Pennsylvania--Mansfield--1900-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,162 × 4,161 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210664

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