1920s SIGNED PHOTOS OF BOSTON AREA MOVIE FRONTS AND INTERIORS

AT AUCTION MAY 20 2011

A group of 40 matt-mounted eleven inch by nine inch sepia prints by Boston photographer Paul J. Weber,  signed on the matt adjacent to  the photo. “Weber Boston.” 

Plus 7 unmounted unsigned prints.

Photos are of 7 New England movie theaters that date from the late 1920s. Several have visual references to the introduction of sound to motion pictures. (Dates affixed are based on titles of films being shown.)  Each group features a photo of the theater front plus photos of the interiors. 

Paul J. Weber ( 1882 - 195? ) was an architectural, industrial, landscape photographer who worked in the New England area. 

He was hired by the New England Theater Operating Company, a loose affiliation of independent movie house owners. The photos Weber shot were collected into a portfolio created for presentation to the head of Paramount Pictures, Alfred Zukor, who had expressed interest in buying an interest in the theatre chain. 

Paul J. Weber reference: collection of photographs (same format as the theater photos ) in the Fletcher Steele Landscape Collection at Lake Forest College Library, Lake Forest, Illinois.


For further information, contact Rudy Franchi 617 216 5511