The Dunbar Theatre

The Dunbar Theatre is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 1992.

SW corner, S Broad St. at Lombard, Philadelphia

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Erected here by Black bankers, this theater was home to the Lafayette Players, popular vaudeville entertainers. Later bought by white interests and renamed the Lincoln, it hosted major Black performers from the 1920s into the 1940s.

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USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

Historical maps covering this location

1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1944 · 1944 Philadelphia Transportation Company street car, bus and subway-elevated lines route… (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1967 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1979 · Important farmlands, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Penn State University Libraries)
1995 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995, covering the location of The Dunbar Theatre, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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