# @opensfhistory on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DM8r6lXhJ-P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34654498-opensfhistory-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/c5f1f63a17.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-04T21:29:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** OpenSFHistory (@opensfhistory) — https://gondola.cc/opensfhistory

## Caption

You’re looking at “Ethel Barrymore” in lights circa 1909 at the Van Ness Theatre, which was the largest local theater at the time, located  at 259 Van Ness Avenue at Grove Street from March 1907 through August 1910. 

[📸 from the Jack Tillmany Collection courtesy of a Private Collector and outsidelandz / OpenSFHistory, wnp67.0041] #SFHistory #SanFranciscoHistory #SanFrancisco #History #OpenSFHistory #Photography

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history, photography, opensfhistory, sanfrancisco, sfhistory, sanfranciscohistory

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