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[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD., 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: [Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD.

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The subject here is a street rather than a single building: an ink drawing of three theaters lined up along Monroe Street in Detroit, the Palace, the National, and the Columbia. Dated to about 1930, it comes from the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering drawings collection. Those years were the high point of the downtown movie palace, when large auditoriums drew crowds in the evenings and gave busy commercial streets much of their character. Set side by side, the three facades show how theater builders competed for attention on a single block, with signage, entrances, and decorative detail meant to pull passersby inside.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre[ca. 1930]
SubjectsTheaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1940. Motion picture theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,285 × 4,088 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210478

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