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| Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
| Date: | 10 28 1930 |
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| Description: | Round laugh speedometer sign for the "Check and Double Check" movie, hanging from the Capitol Theatre canopy. The sign reads: "Laugh Speedometer for Amos '... |
| Date: | 09 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Capitol Theatre marquee featuring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in "Half Shot at Sunrise." Also shows Lurose women's cloth... |
| Date: | 08 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Children lined up on sidewalk in front of L. Wieman Co. Store, 205-07 State Street, to attend a free back-to-school movie party at the Capitol Theatre. In ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Business signs read: "North Shore Hotel," "Elite Cafe," "Northwestern Book Store," and "Pink Shop." On right side of street, the Hoyburn theater has writte... |
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| Description: | The Rudolf Pharmacy, Cafe and Hotel. Business signs read: "Rudolf Pharmacy" "Dr. G.H. Hansen Dentist," "Rex," "Herradura and Plantation Co.," "Hotel Rudolf... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a central business district. The theater marquee on the left reads: "The Concert for Bangladesh." Across the street on the right ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a six-story corner hotel. Automobiles are parked at the curb. The cinema next door is showing Richard Arlen in "Burning Up." Cap... |
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| Description: | A movie theater marquee on top of a building in Havana advertising Charlie Chaplin's film "The Dictator." The caption below the photograph reads: "HAVANA —... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Palace Theatre, Superior, Wis." A brick theatre with many windows and ornate decorative elements on the exterior. A child is on the s... |
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