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[Terminal Theatre (Proctor's Theatre), Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House (Gayety Theatre), Market St. and Halsey St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1935. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Terminal Theatre (Proctor's Theatre), Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House (Gayety Theatre), Market St. and Halsey St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1935., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Terminal Theatre (Proctor's Theatre), Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House (Gayety Theatre), Market St. and Halsey St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1935., 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: [Terminal Theatre (Proctor's Theatre), Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House (Gayety Theatre), Market St. and Halsey St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1935., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Terminal Theatre (Proctor's Theatre), Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House (Gayety Theatre), Market St. and Halsey St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1935.

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This ink drawing on paper captures two Newark playhouses on one sheet: the Terminal theater, known as Proctor's, on Park Place opposite Military Park, and Waldmann's Opera House, later the Gayety, at Market and Halsey streets. Dated 1935, it belongs to the Library of Congress's Architectural and Engineering drawings, a body of technical records that documents how commercial buildings were planned and recorded during the Depression years. Downtown Newark at that time supported many theaters presenting vaudeville, drama, and motion pictures, and a plan like this shows the building forms and construction details behind the public face of each stage. Such drawings help researchers trace how these theaters were arranged and how their uses changed over time.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1935
SubjectsTheaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940. Opera houses--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,312 × 4,089 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210642

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