America's Oldest · Founded 1808

Historic Photo Gallery: 1969 to 1982

1975

During the 1975-76 season the Walnut's historic fire curtain underwent a $10,000 restoration. The curtain features a hand-painted reproduction of a painting of the Liberty Bell's casting called The Liberty Bell's First Note, 1753, originally painted by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris. This historic fire curtain still hangs above the stage today. (Photograph courtesy of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.)

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