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[Majestic Theatre, Tremont St. near the Common, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Majestic Theatre, Tremont St. near the Common, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Majestic Theatre, Tremont St. near the Common, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings. Vintage poster from the Theater Posters collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Majestic Theatre, Tremont St. near the Common, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928.

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Tremont Street runs along the edge of Boston Common, and this 1928 ink drawing shows the Majestic theater on that busy stretch, one of the city's many playhouses of the period. Architectural drawings like this one were made to show how a building would look from the street, so the facade and entrance are the main focus rather than the interior. By the late 1920s, Boston's theaters were adapting to motion pictures, and the growing number of movie houses reshaped many downtown blocks. The drawing is worth studying for its decorative details and its record of how a theater was presented to the public in that era.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1928
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,111 × 3,315 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210387

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