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Title
View of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931
Contributor
Stone, Jim
Date Created and/or Issued
1931
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the entrance to the Wiltern Theater, 1931. The ticket booth is shown at center, below the large ornate overhang of the theater itself. In the left background, a traffic light can be seen, beyond which commercial shops line the street.
The film "Alexander Hamilton" starring George Arliss was released on September 12, 1939.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1440
USC-0-1-1-1485 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41350
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1440
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41350.jpg
Subject
Los Angeles--Architecture--Commercial--Theaters--General
Theaters
Wiltern Theater
Performance sites
Time Period
1931
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilshire Boulevard & Western Boulevard
Source
41350 [Accession number]
86-3-43 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41350 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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