[Wisconsin Theatre, West Wisconsin Ave. opposite Palace Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1936. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Wisconsin Theatre, West Wisconsin Ave. opposite Palace Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1936., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0e/0e7d4382da83-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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This rare vintage poster captures [Wisconsin Theatre, West Wisconsin Ave. opposite Palace Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1936. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Wisconsin Theatre, West Wisconsin Ave. opposite Palace Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin] / AFD 1936.
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This ink drawing shows the Wisconsin theater on West Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, set directly across the street from the Palace theater, so it records two of the city's major playhouses facing each other on the same downtown boulevard. Its catalog date of 1936 places it in the years when Depression-era theaters were being modernized and the movie house was the dominant form of public entertainment. Because the work is an architectural drawing rather than a photograph, it shows the building's planned street frontage and massing in precise line, which makes it useful for studying how theaters were designed to draw crowds along the avenue.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1936 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,119 × 3,333 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210588 |
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