Image / Set of Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”

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Title: Set of Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.”
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
Contributing Institution: Sacramento Public Library
Collection: Sacramento Room Photographs
Rights Information: This image may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.). Copyright restrictions applying to the reproduction and use of this image are available from the Sacramento Public Library.
Description: This afternoon photograph, taken in August 1927 and shot from the western bank of the Sacramento River, shows the set of the 1928 film “Steamboat Bill, Jr.,” starring Buster Keaton. The northerly view shows two steamboats and a makeshift village on the Sacramento County side of the river.
Type: Image
Identifier: 1571b
http://sacroom.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15248coll1/id/2458
Subject: Motion Picture Sets
Boats
Riverboats
Rivers
Sacramento River
Source: Sacramento Room Photograph Collection

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