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[Harris Theatre and Selwyn Theatre, N. Dearborn St. and E. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1924. – Antique Poster Print

[Harris Theatre and Selwyn Theatre, N. Dearborn St. and E. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1924., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Harris Theatre and Selwyn Theatre, N. Dearborn St. and E. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1924., 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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[Harris Theatre and Selwyn Theatre, N. Dearborn St. and E. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1924. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Harris Theatre and Selwyn Theatre, N. Dearborn St. and E. Lake St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1924.

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This ink drawing shows two theaters standing side by side on North Dearborn Street at East Lake Street, the Harris and the Selwyn, rather than a single building. Both were legitimate stage houses in Chicago's downtown Loop, built in the early 1920s as the city's theater district expanded. The 1924 date places the drawing during the years when Chicago's theaters were competing for audiences with the growing number of motion picture houses, which the record also lists as a subject. Drawings like this one show how architects planned sightlines, lobbies, and street frontage in a dense commercial block.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1924
SubjectsTheaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,150 × 3,337 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210440

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