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[RKO State Lake Theatre, State St. and Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[RKO State Lake Theatre, State St. and Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[RKO State Lake Theatre, State St. and Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932., 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: [RKO State Lake Theatre, State St. and Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932., 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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[RKO State Lake Theatre, State St. and Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932.

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The RKO State Lake theater, at the corner of State and Lake streets in Chicago's Loop, is the subject of this 1932 ink drawing, one of the architectural and engineering drawings the Library of Congress holds for theaters of the period. The State Lake opened in 1921 as a vaudeville and movie palace, and by the early 1930s it had become part of the RKO circuit, which was consolidating Chicago's large downtown houses. Drawings like this one record a building's plan and structure in precise detail, so they show how a major 1920s-era theater was laid out and built as well as how it was presented to the public.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1932
SubjectsTheaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,093 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210620

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