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Item Description

Title: Strong Theatre (Burlington, VT)

Photographer

• McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963

Source Document

Description

1946 photo of the Strong Building, home of Strong Hardware Co. and the Strong Theatre, as well as Brown's Pharmacy and ice cream shop. Date on the building is 1902. The marquee reads: Abbott and Costello: "The Naughty Nineties," with Alan Curtis. (The movie came out in 1945.) The building was destroyed by arson in 1970, and rubble at the site was used to help build the Burlington bike path.

Genre(s): photographs, black-and-white photographs

Subject/topic

• Theaters
• Street photography
• Drugstores
• Buildings
• Automobiles
• Architectural photography

Subject/name

• Strong Theater (Burlington, Vt.)

Subject/geographic

• Burlington (Vt.)

Note [Digital Version]

2009-10-27, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: still image

Parent Collections

• Louis L. McAllister Photographs

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