Part of the ornate auditorium of the Ohio Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, which after its deterioration and closing in 1969 came as close as the width of the gap between a wrecking ball

Collection details

• Catalogue date: 2016-10-11.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Ohio; Ohio--Franklin County--Columbus; Franklin County; United States; Columbus
• 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- 41838 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: Official Theatre of Ohio; Thomas W. Lamb; Ohio Theatre; United States--Ohio--Franklin County--Columbus; America; Columbus Symphony Orchestra; Columbus Association for the Performing Arts; Spanish Baroque style; Capa
• Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

• Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
• Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-4).
• The grand theater had opened in 1928 as a movie palace designed by noted theater architect Thomas W. Lamb. The Spanish Baroque-style theater featured its own orchestra and organ that played while silent films ran. At death's door those 41 years later, a nonprofit group called CAPA, the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, successfully raised money to save and eventually run and renovate the historic theatre, which became the home of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and a venue for other live performances. It is now designated as the Official Theatre of the State of Ohio.
• Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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