[Empress Theatre (Burlesque), West Water St. near Well St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1932. – Vintage Poster
![[Empress Theatre (Burlesque), West Water St. near Well St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1932., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0b/0b706b4227a4-L.webp)
(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: [Empress Theatre (Burlesque), West Water St. near Well St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1932., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Empress Theatre (Burlesque), West Water St. near Well St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1932.
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The Empress theater stood on West Water Street near Well Street in Milwaukee, a stretch of the city known for its entertainment houses. This ink drawing from 1932 records the building as a burlesque theater, and its subject headings also list it as a motion picture house, which reflects how many venues of the period shifted between live variety shows and film as audiences changed. Drawings like this one, held in the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering collection, show the layout and construction details that theater owners and builders needed, so they are useful for understanding how such buildings were planned in the early 1930s.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1932 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,089 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210600 |
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