Image: El Capitan Theatre Marquee, Los Angeles, California LCCN2010630907
Description: Title: El Capitan Theatre Marquee, Los Angeles, California Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Notes: Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.; Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031).; When the theater opened in 1926 as "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama," it featured a Spanish colonial exterior designed by Stiles O. Clements of the architectural firm of Morgan, Walls and Clements, and a lavish East Indian interior by theatre designer G. Albert Lansburgh. For a decade it presented live plays, with over 120 productions by 1936. By the late 1930s, the El Capitan felt the economic effects of the Depression, showcasing fewer and fewer productions.; Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer.
Title: El Capitan Theatre Marquee, Los Angeles, California LCCN2010630907
Credit: Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010630907 Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/highsm/04900/04927a.tif Original url: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.04927
Author: Carol M. Highsmith
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