[State St. Theatre, State St. near city hall, Trenton, New Jersey] / AFD 1919. – Vintage Poster
![[State St. Theatre, State St. near city hall, Trenton, New Jersey] / AFD 1919., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1b/1b3675efb397-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [State St. Theatre, State St. near city hall, Trenton, New Jersey] / AFD 1919.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[State St. Theatre, State St. near city hall, Trenton, New Jersey] / AFD 1919.
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Drawn in 1919, this ink-on-paper plan records the State Street theater, a house on State Street close to Trenton's City Hall in New Jersey's capital. The period was one of rapid growth for American movie houses, which were replacing storefront nickelodeons with larger, more elaborate auditoriums that often shared their bills with vaudeville acts. The Library of Congress holds the drawing in its architecture, design and engineering drawings, and its subject headings tie it to Trenton's theaters of the 1910s, making it a useful record of how such buildings were planned in that decade.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1919 |
| Subjects | Theaters--New Jersey--Trenton--1910-1920. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Trenton--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,045 × 3,311 px · prints to 13 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210627 |
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