[Metropolitan Opera House, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934. – Antique Poster Print
![[Metropolitan Opera House, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/15/15d4c1df5be7-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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[Metropolitan Opera House, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Metropolitan Opera House, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934.
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This 1934 ink drawing documents the Metropolitan Opera House in St. Paul, Minnesota, a building whose record also tags it as a motion picture theater. That dual identity makes it a useful window into the period. By the 1930s, many older opera houses and vaudeville stages across the country were being remodeled to show sound films, and the drawing's subject headings point to that shift. Architectural drawings of this kind were typically made for planning, repair, or alteration, so the sheet records the building's layout as it stood or was to be changed. It is worth noticing how the hand-inked plan captures the working spaces of an older theater at a moment when its purpose was changing.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1934 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940. Opera houses--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,102 × 3,351 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210473 |
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