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Toledo Scale Outside Theater
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Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Paid."
January 31, 1931
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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"Shipmates" at the Strand Theatre
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Parkway Theatre Marquee
April 23, 1947
Marquee of the Parkway Theater, 6 West Mifflin Street, advertising the movie, "The Best Years of Our Lives".
Orpheum Advertisement in Window
July 31, 1930
Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse", and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Building at 14 E. Mifflin Street next to the Str...
Orpheum Advertisement in Window
July 31, 1930
Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse," and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Building at 14 E. Mifflin Street next to the Str...
Strand Theatre Marquee
April 27, 1931
View of the front of the Strand Theatre at 16 East Mifflin Street, advertising the film, "Trader Horn," flanked by Kinney Shoes, 14 East Mifflin Street, and Barton's, 18 East Mifflin Street.
