[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]: History and Collection Facts

[Ritz Theatre, Greenville, Alabama]: Catalogue date: 2010.. Original format: Photo, print, drawing. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color..

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Collection details

Catalogue date: 2010.
Original format: Photo, print, drawing
Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
Language: English
Location as catalogued: United States--Alabama--Greenville; Alabama; Alabama--Greenville; Greenville; 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- 09107 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Catalogue subjects: Movie theaters; United States--Alabama--Greenville; America; Historic
Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:090).
Built in 1935, Greenville's first genuine "movie palace" was the brainchild of local attorney Calvin Poole.
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer.
Forms part of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Sources and reuse

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