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[Brandford Theatre (i.e., Branford Theatre), Branford Place near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1936. – Vintage Poster

[Brandford Theatre (i.e., Branford Theatre), Branford Place near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1936., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Brandford Theatre (i.e., Branford Theatre), Branford Place near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1936., 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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A window into the past: [Brandford Theatre (i.e., Branford Theatre), Branford Place near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1936., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Brandford Theatre (i.e., Branford Theatre), Branford Place near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1936.

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Tucked onto Branford Place near Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey, the Branford theater appears here as an ink drawing rather than a photograph, a record of its design instead of its appearance on a given night. Broad Street was one of the city's main entertainment corridors in the 1930s, when movie houses competed through their facades and interiors. Architectural drawings like this one preserve the layout and details of buildings that were often altered or demolished later, which makes them valuable to researchers of American theater design.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1936
SubjectsTheaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,093 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210543

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