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[Strong Theatre, Main St. near U.S. Post Office, Burlington, Vermont] / AFD 1931. – Vintage Poster

[Strong Theatre, Main St. near U.S. Post Office, Burlington, Vermont] / AFD 1931., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Strong Theatre, Main St. near U.S. Post Office, Burlington, Vermont] / AFD 1931., 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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Step back in time with [Strong Theatre, Main St. near U.S. Post Office, Burlington, Vermont] / AFD 1931., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Strong Theatre, Main St. near U.S. Post Office, Burlington, Vermont] / AFD 1931.

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Drawn in ink in 1931, this rendering shows the Strong theater on Main Street near Burlington's U.S. Post Office, placing a movie house in the middle of the city's downtown. The Lake Champlain port city was one of several Vermont towns where cinemas drew steady crowds in the early 1930s, just after sound pictures transformed the business around 1929. The drawing belongs to a group of 1930s Burlington theater studies held by the Library of Congress, so it records the building's design rather than its daily life. Look at how it fits the street, since theaters like this one were often among the most prominent commercial buildings on their blocks.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1931
SubjectsTheaters--Vermont--Burlington--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Vermont--Burlington--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,103 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210596

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