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Title: California Theatre lobby
Contributor: Gordon, John C. (photographer) (Creator)
Contributing Institution: San José State University, Special Collections and Archives
Collection: John C. Gordon Photographic Collection
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department. http://library.sjsu.edu/sjsu-special-collections/sjsu-special-collections-and-archives
Description: California Theatre lobby, one of 1920's motion picture houses. Photograph shows Native American murals on the walls, patterned carpeting and plaster ornamentation. Two arches leading towards the inner theatre dominate the photograph along with a flower and diamond pattern ornamental ceiling. The California Theatre was designed by architects, William Day and Charles Peter Weeks from the "Weeks and Day Firm."
Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPG format using Photoshop CS3.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
8 x 10 in.
Identifier: islandora:78_18
filename: jcg_theatre_california_lobby_005
oclc: 566083361
islandora: 78_18
Language: English
Subject: Lobbies
Floor coverings
Plasterwork
Theaters
Murals
Day, William Peyton, ca. 1886-1966
Weeks, Charles Peter
Place: San Jose
California
Relation: John C. Gordon Photograph Collection

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