Emerson's first theater.

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Emerson's first theater.

Title: Emerson's first theater.

Record Type: theaters (buildings)

Record Type: interior architecture (object genre)

Record Type: performing arts buildings

Record Type: carriage houses

Record Type: photography (discipline)

Record Type: photographs

Record Type: black-and-white photographs

Date: 1936

Description: Interior of the timber-framed carriage house, set up with rows of folding chairs, stage lighting and tapestries. View of the main house from the stage. The college's very first theater, dubbed the Emerson College Theater, opened in 1936 in a repurposed carriage house behind the 128-130 Beacon Street buildings of the Back Bay. Info source: “Carriage House, 1936,” ECHO: Emerson College History Online, accessed July 27, 2016, http://emersonhistory.omeka.net/items/show/229.

Extent: 8.05 x 10 in.

Subject: Theaters

Collection: RG 004.05 Office of Communication & Marketing Prints and Negatives Collection

Location: Emerson College Archives and Special Collections

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Language: English

Identifier: batch3_001a.jpg

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