Marquee of the Pantages Theatre, a legendary movie and vaudeville palace in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: 2013.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Los Angeles; California--Los Angeles; California; United States
• Collection: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Call number: LC-DIG-highsm- 24281 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: Pantages Theatre; Hollywood; Vaudeville; America; United States--California--Los Angeles; Movie palaces
• Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

• Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.
• Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).
• Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
• Designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca, it was the last theater built by the vaudeville impresario Alexander Pantages. The palatial Art Deco theater opened on June 4, 1930.

Sources and reuse

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