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THE FIRST COLORED Professional, Clerical and Business DIRECTORY OF BALTIMORE CITY 20th Annual Edition, 1932-1933
Volume 510, Page 13   View pdf image (33K)
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DUNBARTH
CENTRAL AVENUE, NEAR M [ ]

The house of Talking Pictures, Vita-
phone and Movietone. The most beautiful
house for colored people south of New York.

The Dunbar Theatre, operated by the
Dunbar Amusement Corporation, with Mr
Josiah Diggs, President; and Mr. Walter
W. Carr, Manager and Vice-President, is a
monument to the industry, untiring energy,
and faith in the people of Baltimore mani-
fest by its president and founder.

Mr. Diggs opened his house, which was
then a much smaller building, with a capa-
city of 350 people, back in 1917, and by the
dint of continual effort and persistency

OWNED AND OPERATED BY NEGROES

E. M. Bernstein, Pres-
Dr. Ernest Lyon, Vice-Pres.
H. H. Murphy. Fiscal Agt.

Rev. A. J. Payne, Secy.
Josiah Diggs, Treas.

T. Wallis Lansey. Ch. of Board
W. L. Fitzgerald, Ally.
D. A. Murphy, Director

SUN CAB COMPANY

The Magic Taxi Phone

Madison 10000

GENERAL TAXICAB SERVICE

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