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Watercolor on paper, signed lower left FC Packard, noted on reverse Woods Drop Keith's Theater Boston, and on the mat lower left Study of Woodland Drop for Keiths Theater Boston.  13" x 19 1/2", matted and framed to 19 1/2" x 25 1/2".   Keith's Theater, or B.F. Keith's Theater, was a vaudeville playhouse across from the Boston Common founded by Benjamin Franklin Keith in 1894.  Thomas Edison demonstrated his new Vitascope movie projector at Keith's in May 1896.  This was the first time a movie had ever been projected in Boston.  The theater was converted into a full time movie theater in 1939, and renamed The Normandie.  The theater was demolished in 1952 to make room for a parking lot.     Fred C. Packard married Mary K. Winchester in Boston in 1890.  Their son Artemus Packard was a professor at Dartmouth College, who died in a car accident in September of 1961.