"Movie Theatre on Saint Charles Street. Liberty Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana."

ID: 5090 ~ Source: Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017759408/. ~ Creator: Walker Evans, photographer. ~ Date: 1935 or 1936.

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Photograph created for the Farm Security Administration.

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Liberty Theatre

By Cody Wild, Vicki Mayer & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

The Liberty Theatre owned by the Saenger Amusement Company and managed under the auspices of Boehringer Amusement Company opened in 1918. The theater was lavishly designed with the intention of being…