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Movie Entrances and Movie Posters of the Pre-War decades.Created by: LOC's Public Domain ArchiveDated: 1920
George Kleine presents the Cines photo drama Quo Vadis Nero sings while Rome burns.
The popularity of “moving pictures” grew in the 1920s. Movie "palaces" sprang up in all major cities. For a quarter or 25 cents, Americans escaped their problems and lose themselves in another era or world. People of all ages attended the movies with far more regularity than today, often going more than once per week.

By the end of the decade, weekly movie attendance swelled to 90 million people. The silent movies gave rise to the first generation of movie stars.
At the end of the decade, the dominance of silent movies began to wane with the advance of sound technology.
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The moving picture cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the story, and what he really did.

The moving picture cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the st...

Motion picture poster for "The moving picture cowboy" shows Tom Mix being bucked off a horse and an inset showing Mix with posssibly the director and fellow actor, and photographer in the background. Color lit... More

Des Kaisers Weihnachtsreise / HRE., Movie Poster

Des Kaisers Weihnachtsreise / HRE., Movie Poster

Poster shows a winter scene at the battfield field. In the background, a church with stars overhead; in the foreground, fence posts with barbed wire strung between them and evergreen trees. Text advertises Neus... More

Die grosse Schlacht in Frankreich / H.R. Erdt.

Die grosse Schlacht in Frankreich / H.R. Erdt.

Poster shows German soldiers around a cannon. In the background looms an image of General Paul von Hindenburg. Text advertises part 1 of the film "The Great Battle in France." Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Ze... More

William Fox presents bride 13 The serial supreme in fifteen episodes : Episode nine "hurled from the clouds" / / Otis Lithograph Co., Cleveland, O.

William Fox presents bride 13 The serial supreme in fifteen episodes :...

Motion picture poster for "Bride 13, episode nine, Hurled from the clouds" showing a woman being pushed out of the cockpit of a seaplane over a large body of water; several battleships cruise the sea beneath th... More

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Entrance to a movie house, Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group of schoolchildren waiting to get in the movies, San Augustine, Texas

Group of schoolchildren waiting to get in the movies, San Augustine, T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Flags of the Confederacy displayed at movie house on Lincoln's birthday, Winchester, Virginia

Flags of the Confederacy displayed at movie house on Lincoln's birthda...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Intercat '73. The second international cat film festival, the Elgin Cinema..

Intercat '73. The second international cat film festival, the Elgin Ci...

Sandra Kopell, artist. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. K6. K82. 1973

Washington Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan, Motion Picture Theaters

Washington Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan, Motion Picture Theaters

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Virginia Theater, horizontal, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Virginia Theater, horizontal, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Sky View Drive-In Theater, Dothan, Alabama

Sky View Drive-In Theater, Dothan, Alabama

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Theater screens (backs and fronts); Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:... More

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, closer view of angle from left Gaffey Street, Los Angeles, California

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, closer view of angle from left Gaffey Stre...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mural and decorated screens; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). C... More

Terrace Drive-In Theater, Terrace Way, Bakersfield, California

Terrace Drive-In Theater, Terrace Way, Bakersfield, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Theater screens (backs and fronts); Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:... More

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

Theatre Marquee, Fargo, North Dakota

On Monday, March 15, 1926, the Fargo Theatre opened to the public. The opening was big news, and The Forum ran a 12-page supplement detailing the elegant structure. The entertainment bill that first day feature... More

Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Missouri

Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Misso...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, angle from right, gray sky, Gaffey Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California (LOC)

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, angle from right, gray sky, Gaffey Street,...

Margolies, John,, photographer...San Pedro Drive-In Theater, angle from right, gray sky, Gaffey Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California..1977...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Note... More

Tri City Drive-In Theater, straight-on view, Redlands Boulevard, Loma Linda, California (LOC)

Tri City Drive-In Theater, straight-on view, Redlands Boulevard, Loma ...

Margolies, John,, photographer...Tri City Drive-In Theater, straight-on view, Redlands Boulevard, Loma Linda, California..1991...1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)...Notes:. Title, date an... More

The Pastime moving picture show, Movie Poster

The Pastime moving picture show, Movie Poster

Advertising poster for Thomas Edison's kinetoscope films shows in the background, a boardwalk visible on the horizon; in the foreground, two women are perched on a rock in the ocean, they are wearing turn-of-th... More

An Embarrassing predicament, Movie Poster

An Embarrassing predicament, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "An Embarrassing Predicament" shows a man, a woman and a clergyman. Caption: Popping the question. A Selig Comedy - Trade S Mark. Copyright 1914 by Selig Polyscope Co.

The Moving Picture Cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the story, and what he really did.

The Moving Picture Cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the st...

Motion picture poster for "The moving picture cowboy" shows advertising motion picture comedy of Tom Mix jumping from horse to railroad car in front of photographer and seated on ground with hand on his head. ... More

Have a date with us Free to you and your friends, motion pictures, concert music, exhibit talks, guided tours : American Museum of Natural History / / Tyte...[?].

Have a date with us Free to you and your friends, motion pictures, con...

Poster announcing opportunity for the public to attend free programs, such as movies, concerts, exhibits, and tours, at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79 St., New York City, showi... More

Poster - The Hungry heart, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Poster - The Hungry heart, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "The Hungry Heart" shows a butterfly with the shape of a woman (actress Alice Brady?) hovering near roses. Caption: From the famous play "Frou Frou." Copyright 1917, World Film Corporation.

Poster - The Hungry heart, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Poster - The Hungry heart, Movie Poster - Public domain lithograph

Motion picture poster for "The Hungry Heart" shows a butterfly with the shape of a woman (actress Alice Brady?) hovering near roses. Caption: From the famous play "Frou Frou." Copyright 1917, World Film Corporation.

Ivanhoe - concert / theatrical poster, Movie Poster

Ivanhoe - concert / theatrical poster, Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "Ivanhoe" shows actor King Baggot as Ivanhoe. Caption: The great "IMP" feature film. Produced by Herbert Brenon at Chepstow Castle. Three reels. Stamped on back: Nederlands Filmmuseum... More

Elliot & Sherman Film Corp. ... present D.W. Griffith's 8th wonder of the world The Birth of a Nation ...

Elliot & Sherman Film Corp. ... present D.W. Griffith's 8th wonder of ...

Motion picture poster for "The birth of a nation" shows title of film inside large red circle.

Kamoi Theater, Ala Malama Avenue & Kamoi Street, Kaunakakai, Maui County, HI

Kamoi Theater, Ala Malama Avenue & Kamoi Street, Kaunakakai, Maui Coun...

Significance: The Kamoi Theater is one of three buildings on the island of Molokai that were built expressly as movie theaters. Only the Kamoi, in the town of Kaunakakai, remains; the others, in the towns of M... More

Sun Theater, vertical detail, Lincoln Avenue, York, Nebraska

Sun Theater, vertical detail, Lincoln Avenue, York, Nebraska

Photograph shows the Sun Theater located at 427 N. Lincoln Avenue, York, Nebraska. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies ca... More

Orpheum Theater, angle detail, Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Orpheum Theater, angle detail, Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dak...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Credit line: John Margolies Roadsi... More

Star-Lite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 85, Minot, North Dakota

Star-Lite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 85, Minot, North Dakota

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

Viking Outdoor Cinema, Anderson, South Carolina

Viking Outdoor Cinema, Anderson, South Carolina

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Theaters. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph... More

Viking Drive-In Theater sign, darker sky, Route 29, Anderson, South Carolina

Viking Drive-In Theater sign, darker sky, Route 29, Anderson, South Ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

The Fox Theater building in downtown La Junta, the seat of Otero County, Colorado

The Fox Theater building in downtown La Junta, the seat of Otero Count...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Originally built in 1912 as a playhouse, it was purchased in 1939 by the Fox Theater chain and converted to a movie theater with 800 s... More

Marquee of the El Capitan, a restored movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California

Marquee of the El Capitan, a restored movie palace on Hollywood Boulev...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Dubbed "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," the theater originally opened on May 3, 1926. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Schoolchildren going to the movies, San Augustine, Texas

Schoolchildren going to the movies, San Augustine, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Palace Theater, side angle, Enterprise Boulevard, Lake Charles, Louisiana

Palace Theater, side angle, Enterprise Boulevard, Lake Charles, Louisi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Hart Theater, detail, Convention Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Hart Theater, detail, Convention Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 3, Route 285, Espanola, New Mexico

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 3, Route 285, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Negro going in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, ...

Photograph shows side of Crescent Theatre in Belzoni, Mississippi. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013) Additional information on caption card: For M1 and M2 use copy negative in series LC-USF331. Digital fil... More

The Mexican a courageous revenge., Movie Poster

The Mexican a courageous revenge., Movie Poster

Motion picture poster for "The Mexican" shows a woman, (possibly Inez Walker), on her knees with child pleading with a man, (possibly Tom Mix).

Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Missouri

Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Misso...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Children and farmers waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon, Littleton, New Hampshire

Children and farmers waiting to go into movie on Saturday afternoon, L...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Roseville Theater, Roseville, Michigan, Motion Picture Theaters

Roseville Theater, Roseville, Michigan, Motion Picture Theaters

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

A black and white photo of a movie theater. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a movie theater. Office of War Information ...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Divisi... More

Brighton Theater, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Brighton Theater, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Beyda Theater, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Beyda Theater, The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Pasco Theater, S. 7th Street, Dade City, Florida

Pasco Theater, S. 7th Street, Dade City, Florida

Photograph shows the Pasco Theater which was opened in Dec. 1948 and demolished in 1999. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margo... More

Auto Cinema, Route 11, Midfield, Alabama

Auto Cinema, Route 11, Midfield, Alabama

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Drive-in theater signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside Am... More

Bordertown Drive-In Theater, blue sky, San Bernardo Avenue, Laredo, Texas

Bordertown Drive-In Theater, blue sky, San Bernardo Avenue, Laredo, Te...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mural and decorated screens; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). C... More

Royal Theater, Central Avenue, Le Mars, Iowa

Royal Theater, Central Avenue, Le Mars, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 1, Route 285, Espanola, New Mexico

Dream Catcher Theater (a contemporary multiplex), angle 1, Route 285, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

West Theater, angle 1, Route 66, Grants, New Mexico

West Theater, angle 1, Route 66, Grants, New Mexico

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Some once-popular TV and movie celebrities whose likenesses appear as part of the whimsical decoration at the Canyon 66 Restaurant & Lounge, part of the Ramada Inn motel in Kingman, Arizona

Some once-popular TV and movie celebrities whose likenesses appear as ...

Mural artist: Dan & Vicki. The accompanying identies on the mural are curious. It was Jerry Lewis (not Frank Lewis) who played The Busboy in a comedic movie (and starred on TV as well), and the figure at the ri... More

A black and white photo of a book store, North Carolina. Farm Security Administration photograph

A black and white photo of a book store, North Carolina. Farm Security...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Street scene showing movie theater, probably in the vicinity of Lancaster, Ohio

Street scene showing movie theater, probably in the vicinity of Lancas...

General caption for this series of images: Lancaster is a very prosperous town, the county seat of Fairfield County, which is considered to be one of the richest farmland areas in the Middle West. Lancasterhas ... More

Movie theatre, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, both offer games of chance three nights a week to drum up trade on slack nights

Movie theatre, Elkins, West Virginia. There are two movies in town, bo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a window with posters on it. America during Great Depression and World War Two. FSA / OWI Photograph.

A black and white photo of a window with posters on it. America during...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Movie theatre, Chicago, Illinois

Movie theatre, Chicago, Illinois

Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Palace Theater, Main Street, Luverne, Minnesota

Palace Theater, Main Street, Luverne, Minnesota

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Glacier Theater, angle 2, Main Street, Browning, Montana

Glacier Theater, angle 2, Main Street, Browning, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Office of War Information poster. Poster distributed by the OWI at public buildings, streetcars, theatres, movie houses, etc. The original comes in several sizes: forty inches by fifty-six inches, twenty-eight inches by forty inches, twenty-two inches by twenty-eight inches, and seven inches by eleven inches and is printed in multi-colors. The poster was drawn by artist David Stone Martin. Copies may be obtained from Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C

Office of War Information poster. Poster distributed by the OWI at pub...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Colonial Theater, angle 1, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Colonial Theater, angle 1, Seaside Heights, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Trail Drive-In Theater ticket booth, Route 41, Sarasota, Florida

Trail Drive-In Theater ticket booth, Route 41, Sarasota, Florida

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

Gothic Theater, S. Broadway., Denver, Colorado

Gothic Theater, S. Broadway., Denver, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Top-Hi Drive-In Theater sign, R. 97, Toppenish, Washington

Top-Hi Drive-In Theater sign, R. 97, Toppenish, Washington

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

Soll und Haben des Kriegs-jahres 1917 -- in den Union/Theatern / HRE.

Soll und Haben des Kriegs-jahres 1917 -- in den Union/Theatern / HRE.

Poster shows two coats of arms and crowns(?). Text over the image is film title; text below states where film is being shown. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

The lure of the movies during World War I

The lure of the movies during World War I

Exhibit poster showing a disabled man working with film projection equipment.

Mural painted by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting an early movie poster, on the rear wall of the Books and Crannies bookstore located in the old Iris Theater building in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Mural painted by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting an ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Iris operated from 1925 to 2001 before closing. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith'... More

Arms and the Man - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Congress

Arms and the Man - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Co...

Text on Poster: The Detroit WPA Federal Theatre presents George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man Sat. & Sun. Matinee 2:30 P.M. Evenings 8:30 On the Screen “Conquerors of the Arctic” The Story of the Sov... More

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a movie theater, West Virginia. Farm Securi...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Greenbelt, Maryland. Crowd coming out of a cooperative movie house on Saturday night

Greenbelt, Maryland. Crowd coming out of a cooperative movie house on ...

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of people standing outside of a movie theater, San Augustine, Texas. Movie theater

A group of people standing outside of a movie theater, San Augustine, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

RKO theatre candy stand, New York City. Stand II, view I

RKO theatre candy stand, New York City. Stand II, view I

Public domain photograph of organ, keyboard instrument, church, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colonial Theater, 7th Street, Junction City, Kansas

Colonial Theater, 7th Street, Junction City, Kansas

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Warner Theater, angle view, 2015 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Warner Theater, angle view, 2015 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Fox (West) Theater, Main Street, Trinidad, Colorado

Fox (West) Theater, Main Street, Trinidad, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Marquee of SCAD's Trustees Theatre in downtown Savannah, Georgia

Marquee of SCAD's Trustees Theatre in downtown Savannah, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. "SCAD" is not a family name or slang term. It's an acronym for the Savannah College of Art and Design. Trustees Theater opened in 1946... More

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N.Y.

Official United States war films now being shown / The Hegeman Print N...

Poster showing an airplane casting a searchlight on the water, as a sailor on a small gunboat peers through binoculars. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Carl Laemmle presents The little giant starring Glenn Hunter with Edna Murphy and David Higgins

Carl Laemmle presents The little giant starring Glenn Hunter with Edna...

Poster depicts a woman and man kissing within an exploding firecracker. A William Nigh production. Universla Jewel. From the Saturday Evening Post story by Hugh McNair Kahler.

Arms and the Man - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Congress

Arms and the Man - Public domain poster, Music division, Library of Co...

Text on Poster: WPA Detroit Federal Theatre presents Direct from Downtown Cinema Theatre "Arms and the Man" A Satirical Comedy by George Bernard Shaw Sponsored by Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church G... More

Movie theatre. Moore Haven, Florida

Movie theatre. Moore Haven, Florida

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Movie theater. Saginaw, Michigan

Movie theater. Saginaw, Michigan

Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frank Capra. The man above the title

Frank Capra. The man above the title

Made by USIA Office, New Delhi, India. Art: Indian. Forms part of the Artist poster filing series (Library of Congress) Promotion goal: U.S. K86. 1977.

Dosta Theater, Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

Dosta Theater, Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

Photograph shows the Dosta Theater located at 122 N. Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolie... More

Paducah Drive-In Theater sign, Route 45C, Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah Drive-In Theater sign, Route 45C, Paducah, Kentucky

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

Ritz Theater, W. Doyle Street, Toccoa, Georgia

Ritz Theater, W. Doyle Street, Toccoa, Georgia

Photograph shows the Ritz Theater located at 100 W. Doyle Street, Toccoa, Georgia. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies ca... More

Van Nuys Drive-In Theater, Roscoe Boulevard, Van Nuys, California

Van Nuys Drive-In Theater, Roscoe Boulevard, Van Nuys, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mural and decorated screens; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). C... More

Riviera Theater, angle 2, E. 3rd Street, Muscatine, Iowa

Riviera Theater, angle 2, E. 3rd Street, Muscatine, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public do...

Photo shows two similar houses with movie posters in foreground for Carole Lombard in "Love Before Breakfast" and Anne Shirley in "Chatterbox." Other title from file print. Title and other information from capt... More

George Kleine presents Julius Caesar The magnificent photo spectacle in six parts.

George Kleine presents Julius Caesar The magnificent photo spectacle i...

Motion picture poster for "Julius Caesar" shows a man in chains, costumed as a Gaul, surrounded by men costumed as Roman soldiers.

Mural painted by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting an early movie poster, on the rear wall of the Books and Crannies bookstore located in the old Iris Theater building in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas

Mural painted by artist Sunny DeLipsey of Athens, Texas, depicting an ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Iris operated from 1925 to 2001 before closing. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith'... More

A black and white photo of a horse drawn carriage, West Virginia. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a horse drawn carriage, West Virginia. Farm...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Theater, Main St, Route 90, Franklin, Louisiana

Theater, Main St, Route 90, Franklin, Louisiana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, wide-angle straight-on view of mural itself, Gaffey Street, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California

San Pedro Drive-In Theater, wide-angle straight-on view of mural itsel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Mural and decorated screens; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). C... More

State Theater, angle front, Washington Street, Bay City, Michigan

State Theater, angle front, Washington Street, Bay City, Michigan

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Falls Theatre Motor Vu sign, 2nd Avenue North, Great Falls, Montana

Falls Theatre Motor Vu sign, 2nd Avenue North, Great Falls, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Signs, ticket booths, etc.; Drive-in movie theaters & signs. Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125). Cr... More

Grand Theater, Main Street, Harlem, Montana

Grand Theater, Main Street, Harlem, Montana

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2). Credit line: John Margolies Road... More

Southampton Theater, upper detail, Montauk Highway, Southhampton, New York

Southampton Theater, upper detail, Montauk Highway, Southhampton, New ...

Photograph shows the Southhampton Theater located at 43 Hill Street, Southampton, New York which opened in 1932. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018) Title, date and keywords based on information provided by ... More

Perris Theater, D Street, Perris, California

Perris Theater, D Street, Perris, California

Title and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Date based on release date of the movie "Secuestro a Mano Armada" on March 27, 1992. Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street. Purc... More

Houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public domain photo.

Houses. Atlanta, Georgia. Farm Security Administartion 1930s public do...

Photo shows two similar houses with movie posters in foreground for Carole Lombard in "Love Before Breakfast" and Anne Shirley in "Chatterbox." Other title from file print. Title and other information from capt... More

Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers, (selling 3 months average earnings 25 cents per week). Father working Morocco Mills, earns $18 weekly. Boy's earnings not needed at home. Don't smoke. Visits saloons. Works 8 hours per day. Edward F. Brown, Investigator.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Harry Silverstein, Newsboy, 703 W. 6th St., 7 years old. Sells papers,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of city street life, vendor, shop sign, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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