Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Metropolitan Opera House postcards. [graphic].
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 5 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Exterior views of Broad Street facade of opera house looking northwest and southwest. Built in 1908 after designs by William H. McElfatrick. Commissioned by Oscar Hammerstein. Theatre adapted for moving pictures by 1928.
Notes Originally called the Philadelphia Opera House and Hammerstein's Opera House.
Sheet numbers: 157A02 and 157A03.
Divided backs.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Opera houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 858.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name McElfatrick, William H., 1854-1922, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Theaters - 157]
Accession number 157-a02-a