In 1922 the Northwest Theatre Company in Missoula, Montana, had three major holdings, the Empress Theatre, the Liberty Theatre, and the Wilma Theatre. These enterprises were located in downtown Missoula with the Empress at 210 N. Higgins, the Liberty at 211 E. Main, and the Wilma in the Smead-Simons Building at 127 S. Higgins. According to advertisements in the 1922 Missoulian newspaper, these theaters generally showed movies. In 1920 W.H. Smead and W.A. Simons commissioned the architectural drawings for the most impressive of these buildings, the Wilma Theatre. Simons and Smead were probably the major partners in the Northwest Theatre Company at this time.
This collection consists of an accounting ledger. Payments recorded include items such as COD charges for incoming films, road show expenses, organ repair, stagehands’ wages, cleaning bills, utility bills, advertising expenses in the
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Northwest Theatre Company Ledger, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Gift of Missoula Public Library.
This ledger was originally assigned collection number SC 155.
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