The Bluebird Theater in Denver, Colorado: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: 2015-08-12.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: Colorado; Denver; Colorado--Denver; 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- 33603 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: Movie theaters; Harry W.J. Edbrooke; Bluebird Theater; Thompson Theater; Chris Swank; United States--Colorado--Denver; America
• Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

• Designed by Harry W.J. Edbrooke and built during 1913-1914 as the Thompson Theater after prominent local druggist John Thompson. Renamed to Blue Bird Theater or Bluebird Theater in 1922, the theater was also initially a movie house and went through various phases over the years. In 1994, Chris Swank and a business partner invested in the Bluebird and it reopened as music venue.
• Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
• Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
• Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:068).
• Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Sources and reuse

This guide reorganizes bibliographic facts and catalogue descriptions from the Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse data package, a published snapshot documented in 2024. The original item record identifies the source material. Item-level image rights statement: No known restrictions on publication. Audio, films, scores and full-text works are linked through the original record rather than reproduced here.