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[Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1933. – Antique Poster Print

[Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1933., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1933., 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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[Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1933. 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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[Orpheum Theatre, St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1933.

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This ink drawing records the Orpheum theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, a house whose name ties it to the Orpheum vaudeville circuit that spread across the country in the early twentieth century. By 1933 many such theaters were showing motion pictures, and the Depression-era years saw several downtown houses in St. Paul rebuilt or redecorated to keep audiences coming. Because the record is catalogued in the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering holdings, the sheet was likely prepared as a working or documentary drawing rather than a decorative rendering. Its linework shows how a theater's plan and elevations were recorded for construction, renovation, or later reference.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1933
SubjectsTheaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,172 × 3,342 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210459

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