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[State Theatre and Congress Building, Congress St. and High St., Portland, Maine] / AFD 1930. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[State Theatre and Congress Building, Congress St. and High St., Portland, Maine] / AFD 1930., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[State Theatre and Congress Building, Congress St. and High St., Portland, Maine] / AFD 1930., 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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[State Theatre and Congress Building, Congress St. and High St., Portland, Maine] / AFD 1930.

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The State theater and Congress Building stood at the corner of Congress and High Streets in downtown Portland, Maine, and this 1930 ink drawing records the project on paper as its design took shape. The site sat on Congress Street, the city's main commercial thoroughfare, where movie houses of the late 1920s often shared a block with offices and shops. Palaces like this one were built to draw crowds with grand interiors, and combining a theater with a commercial building shows how such houses became anchors of city life. The drawing is useful for seeing how the architects planned the building's street presence before construction.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1930
SubjectsTheaters--Maine--Portland--1930. Motion picture theaters--Maine--Portland--1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,102 × 3,303 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210738

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