File:El Capitan Theatre Marquee, Los Angeles, California LCCN2010630907.tif
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.
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Carol M. Highsmith
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Alternative names | Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney Carol McKinney Highsmith | ||
Description | American photographer and architectural photographer | ||
Date of birth | 18 May 1946 | ||
Location of birth | Leaksville, North Carolina | ||
Work period | 1981- | ||
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