Salt Lake Theatre, "Birth of a Nation"

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Title Salt Lake Theatre, "Birth of a Nation"
Collection Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection
Photo Number Shipler #17108
Creator Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry
Publisher Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of Photograph 14 June 1916
Date 1916-06-14
Subject Costume; Flags - United States; Horses; Theater; Theater and society; Theaters; Advertising
Corporate Name Salt Lake Theater
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Historic Address Northwest corner, 100 South and State Street
Historic Place Name Salt Lake Theater
Description Image shows a group of people, two of whom are in Ku Klux Klan costumes, posing for a photograph outside the Salt Lake Theater. They are advertising for a showing of the first moving picture, "Birth of a Nation."
Rights Management Digital Image © 2002 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Shipler Commercial Photographers, Series 1
File Name 39222000672720
Source Format Glass Plate Negative
Source Size 10 inches x 8 inches
Source Physical Description Glass plate is yellowing.
Source Donors Shipler, William H.
Source Donation Date 1988
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Resolution TIFF: 800 ppi
Bit Depth 8-bit grayscale
Dimensions JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels
Scanning Device Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner
Date Digital 2002-04-16
Scanned By Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Collection Information http://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/C00275/c0275.xml
ARK ark:/87278/s6jq1c87
Setname dha_scp
ID 529755
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jq1c87
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