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[Indiana Theatre, Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana] / AFD 1937. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Indiana Theatre, Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana] / AFD 1937., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Indiana Theatre, Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana] / AFD 1937., 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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Step back in time with [Indiana Theatre, Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana] / AFD 1937., a vintage poster rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Indiana Theatre, Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana] / AFD 1937.

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The Indiana theater on Washington Street in Indianapolis is the subject here, rendered as an architectural drawing in ink on paper from 1937. The record ties it to the Historic American Buildings Survey, the Depression-era federal program that documented important American structures through measured drawings, and the Library of Congress holds the work among its architecture and engineering collections. Movie palaces of the 1930s were built to draw crowds with lavish interiors and marquees, so a drawing of this kind captures how the building was planned and laid out. Its precise linework preserves the design of a theater that stood as part of the city's downtown entertainment district during the years when moviegoing was at its height.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1937
SubjectsTheaters--Indiana--Indianapolis--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Indiana--Indianapolis--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,124 × 3,346 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210432

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