The Stanley Theatre, a historic and ornate movie palace that opened in 1928 in Utica, New York: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: 2018-07-23.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: New York; New York (State); New York (State)--Utica; United States; Utica
• Collection: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Call number: LC-DIG-highsm- 52314 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: Stanley Theatre; Mexican baroque; America; Stanley Mastbaum; United States--New York (State)--Utica; Movie Theaters
• Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

• Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
• Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
• Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2)
• Thomas W. Lamb, a prolific theatre architect, designed the 2,963 -seat cinema for the Mastbaum chain of theatres. The theatre was named for Stanley, one of the Mastbaum brothers. Its design motif is called "Mexican Baroque" because of its unique blend of styles. The terra cotta and tiled mosaic exterior shows the Mexican influence, the interior is lavish gold-leaf baroque.
• Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Sources and reuse

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