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[Loew's Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place and Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922. – Antique Poster Print

[Loew's Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place and Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Loew's Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place and Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922., 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [Loew's Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place and Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Loew's Orpheum Theatre, Hamilton Place and Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922.

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This ink drawing records the planned Loew's Orpheum theater at Hamilton Place and Tremont Street in Boston, a site in the city's downtown theater district. Dated 1922, it is an architectural and engineering drawing, so it shows the building as designers imagined it before construction. Loew's was a major chain in the 1920s, when many theaters were built to host both vaudeville acts and motion pictures. Drawings like this one reveal how such houses were arranged, from street frontage to auditorium and stage, and they are useful for understanding how theaters of that era were planned.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1922
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,120 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210419

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