[Gaiety Theatre (Burlesque), Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Academy Theatre, Wyoming Ave. near Linden St., and Capitol Theatre, Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Scranton, Pennsylvania] – Antique Poster Print
![[Gaiety Theatre (Burlesque), Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Academy Theatre, Wyoming Ave. near Linden St., and Capitol Theatre, Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Scranton, Pennsylvania], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/11/11748c7402dc-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: [Gaiety Theatre (Burlesque), Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Academy Theatre, Wyoming Ave. near Linden St., and Capitol Theatre, Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Scranton, Pennsylvania], 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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[Gaiety Theatre (Burlesque), Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Academy Theatre, Wyoming Ave. near Linden St., and Capitol Theatre, Penn Ave. near Spruce St., Scranton, Pennsylvania]
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Three downtown Scranton theaters share this ink drawing: the Gaiety, a burlesque house on Penn Avenue; the Academy on Wyoming Avenue; and the Capitol, also on Penn Avenue near Spruce Street. Drawn around 1930, the sheet reflects an era when burlesque, vaudeville and newer motion picture houses operated within a few blocks of one another in the city's commercial core. Its measured linework is typical of architectural and engineering records, which documented building layouts in precise detail. Such drawings preserve spatial information about theaters that photographs often leave out.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | [ca. 1930] |
| Subjects | Theaters--Pennsylvania--Scranton--1920-1940. Motion picture theaters--Pennsylvania--Scranton--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,311 × 4,133 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210518 |
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