Library Jewel #2: 1916 Orpheum programs, posters
(Image courtesy of Washington State Library) Our second Library Jewel for October is a collection of the Orpheum Circuit, Inc., programs and posters in 1916. The collection includes programs and broadsides/posters for the Orpheum Theaters that were from around the country. The programs and posters are from different theaters from around the country. They were published weekly to promote that week’s entertainment at the theater. By the 1920s, every major vaudeville house in America had “Orpheum” or “Keith’s” on its…