VINTAGE 1920S "DUBINSKY BROS. STOCK COMPANY" BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH
HISTORIC THEATRICAL TROUPE PREDECESSOR TO THE MODERN AMC THEATRES CHAIN

UP FOR SALE IS AN EXTREMELY RARE, ORIGINAL VINTAGE REAL PHOTOGRAPH DEPICTING MEMBERS OF THE FAMOUS "DUBINSKY BROS. STOCK COMPANY" PROMOTING AN APPEARANCE AT THE STRAND THEATER DURING THE 1920S. 

THE IMAGERY FEATURES THREE INDIVIDUALS (NUMBERED 1, 2, AND 3 IN VINTAGE PEN AT THE BOTTOM MARGIN) MOUNTING A LARGE PROMOTIONAL CANVAS SIGN ONTO AN EARLY TOURING PHAETON CAR. THE LARGE HAND-PAINTED SIGN READS: "ALL WEEK - DUBINSKY BROS. STOCK COMPANY - STRAND".

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE & CONTEXT:
THE DUBINSKY BROTHERS (EDWARD, MAURICE, AND BARNEY) BEGAN AS FAMOUS MIDWESTERN TRAVELING TENT SHOW PERFORMERS IN THE EARLY 1900S, RUNNING HIGHLY POPULAR MELODRAMAS AND REPERTOIRE THEATER ACROSS MISSOURI, KANSAS, AND IOWA. IN DECEMBER 1920, THE BROTHERS TRANSITIONED FROM TENT SHOWS TO FIXED CINEMAS BY PURCHASING THE REGENT THEATRE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. EDWARD'S SON, STANLEY DURWOOD, EVENTUALLY TOOK THE REINS, RENAMED THE EXPANDING FAMILY NUCLEUS "AMERICAN MULTI-CINEMA" (AMC) IN THE 1960S, AND PIONEERED THE WORLD'S VERY FIRST MULTIPLEX MOVIE THEATER CONCEPT. THIS REPRESENTS THE FOUNDATIONAL HISTORY OF AMC THEATRES, TODAY THE LARGEST MOVIE THEATER CHAIN ON EARTH!

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION CLUE:
THE BACKDROP REVEALS A MAJOR BRICK URBAN WAREHOUSE BEARING A GIANT HAND-PAINTED MURAL SIGN THAT READS: "ADAMS & SONS GROCER CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS." THIS PROMINENT MIDWESTERN COMMERCE HUB FIRMLY PLACES THIS PHOTOGRAPH IN SIOUX CITY, IOWA—A MAJOR ROUTE STOP FOR BOTH THE DUBINSKY STOCK ENSEMBLE AND THE REGIONAL ADAMS WHOLESALE DISTRICT THROUGHOUT THE 1910S AND 1920S, WHERE THE TROUPE INDEED HELD RESIDENCY PERFORMANCES AT THE REGIONAL STRAND THEATER STAGE.

ITEM SPECIFICS & CONDITION:
* DIMENSIONS: APPROXIMATELY 4 1/4" X 2 1/2"
* TYPE: ORIGINAL PERIOD SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH TYPE SNAPSHOT.
* CONDITIONAL NOTES: SHOWS SCATTERED AGE-TONING AND UNIFORM LIGHT WEAR COMPATIBLE WITH BEING A CENTURY OLD. A NOTABLE DIAGONAL CREASE MARKS THE CENTER SKY/UPPER CANVAS REGION FROM AGING FOLDS. THE NUMBERS "1. 2. 3." ARE HAND-WRITTEN IN BLACK INK ACROSS THE REAR LOWER BLANK BORDER EDGE FOR INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION. UNSTAMPED VERSO. 

AN ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE CONVERSATION PIECE FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN REPERTOIRE THEATER, MIDWESTERN EPHEMERA, EARLY AUTOMOTIVE SNAPSHOTS, OR THE CORPORATE GENESIS HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD ADVERTISING AND AMC CINEMAS.


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