Tower Theatre, a Sacramento landmark, built in 1938, that is famous for its neon displays: History and Collection Facts

Collection details

• Catalogue date: 2012.
• Original format: Photo, print, drawing
• Medium: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
• Language: English
• Location as catalogued: United States--California--Sacramento; California; Sacramento; California--Sacramento; 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- 23869 (ONLINE) [P&P]
• Catalogue subjects: United States--California--Sacramento; Movie theaters; Tower Records; America; Tower Theatre
• Named contributors: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- — photographer; Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- photographer.

Catalogue notes

• Visitors sometimes associate the glowing tower with Tower Records, a nationwide retail giant founded in Sacramento.
• 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.

Sources and reuse

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