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Historical Photos Click With Emagine Theatre

Downtown theater displays photographs of movie houses of yesteryear.

Enlarged and framed photographs of long-ago theaters in Royal Oak line both walls in a corridor on the second floor of the thanks to the .

Emagine's executives selected the photos from the museum’s collection, which includes more than 5,000 photographs grouped by decade beginning in the 1890s.

Another assortment of photos from the museum's collection is displayed in on Fourth Street and yet another new establishment plans to review the collection for topical photographs suitable to display in its unique downtown location.

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The procedure is for a business or organization to borrow or scan the photographs it selects, have them enlarged, then return them. The museum receives an honorarium.

For information call 248-439-1501 or curator@royaloakhistoricalsocietymuseum.org.

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