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Grand Theater

CTL-E-0864 · Address · site · ca. 1908-1930

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

State Street Black-audience theater; hosted the Original Creole Jazz Band (1913), Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:venue-grand-theater; source research type(s): place.

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Record CTL-E-0864 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · CTL research: BVM-005.
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