[Ford's Grand Opera House, S. Eutaw St. near N. Howard St., opposite Palace Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland] / AFD 1921. – Antique Poster Print
![[Ford's Grand Opera House, S. Eutaw St. near N. Howard St., opposite Palace Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland] / AFD 1921., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/150cd8f1abcb-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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[Ford's Grand Opera House, S. Eutaw St. near N. Howard St., opposite Palace Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland] / AFD 1921. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Ford's Grand Opera House, S. Eutaw St. near N. Howard St., opposite Palace Theatre, Baltimore, Maryland] / AFD 1921.
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Ford's Grand Opera House on South Eutaw Street stood directly across from the Palace theater, and this 1921 ink drawing records its street-facing elevation at a time when the two houses shared a busy stretch of downtown Baltimore. The drawing is part of the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering collection, which gathered drawings of American buildings for study and record. Its subject headings also note motion picture use, a reminder that many older opera houses of the 1920s were adapted for film as silent pictures grew in popularity. Pen-and-ink renderings like this one show how architects and owners presented a building's facade to the street.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1921 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. Opera houses--Maryland--Baltimore--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,080 × 3,333 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210374 |
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