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[New Penny Theatre, Boise, Idaho] / AFD 1938. – Vintage Poster

[New Penny Theatre, Boise, Idaho] / AFD 1938., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[New Penny Theatre, Boise, Idaho] / AFD 1938., 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: [New Penny Theatre, Boise, Idaho] / AFD 1938., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[New Penny Theatre, Boise, Idaho] / AFD 1938.

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Drawn in ink on paper in 1938, this design for the New Penny theater in Boise, Idaho, shows the building as its planners meant it to look before it was built. Neighborhood movie houses like this one were a common sight in American cities in the 1930s, when films offered inexpensive entertainment during the Depression. The crisp linework and hand-lettered notes reflect the drafting methods of the time, when architectural plans were inked by hand. Worth noticing is how the drawing lays out the street front alongside the seating and projection spaces, showing how a small theater had to serve both its neighborhood and its audience.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1938
SubjectsTheaters--Idaho--Boise--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Idaho--Boise--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,133 × 3,342 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210743

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