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Letterhead, Lyman H. Howe Attractions, Festivals of Travel, playing the Principal Theaters of America. Wilkes Barre, PA, 1917.
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Lyman H. Howe Attractions, Festivals of Travel, playing the Principal Theaters of America. General Offices, 175-177 West River Street, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Includes an image of Lyman H. Howe that has a caption reading Travel with me. Different destinations are lightly faded into the background.

Credit: Luzerne County Historical Society

In the 1910s Howe added the making and exhibiting of industrial films to his road companies of travelogues. During World War 1, he produced military films that took moviegoers into the action on tanks and airplanes. By the end of war, however, the rise of Hollywood and loss of exhibit spaces forced Howe to end his business of twenty-five years. Howe would die in 1923 at the age of sixty-six.

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