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[Theaters, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Theaters, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Theaters, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928., 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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[Theaters, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928. 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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This 1928 ink drawing on paper documents theaters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining city in the Luzerne County region. Its catalog subjects cover both opera houses and motion picture theaters, which signals how the city's entertainment life was changing at the time. In the 1920s, silent films were drawing audiences away from the touring stage productions that opera houses had long hosted, and sound pictures arrived just as the decade ended. Architectural drawings from this period are useful for seeing how such buildings were laid out for both live performance and screen viewing.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1928
SubjectsTheaters--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre--1920-1930. Opera houses--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,325 × 4,142 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210522

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