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[Poli's Theatre, Elm St. near Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts] / AFD 1925. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Poli's Theatre, Elm St. near Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts] / AFD 1925., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Poli's Theatre, Elm St. near Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts] / AFD 1925., 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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This rare vintage poster captures [Poli's Theatre, Elm St. near Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts] / AFD 1925. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Poli's Theatre, Elm St. near Main St., Worcester, Massachusetts] / AFD 1925.

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Poli's theater on Elm Street near Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, is preserved here as a 1925 ink drawing rather than a photograph, so the record shows the building's planned design rather than its appearance in use. The Poli name points to the Poli circuit, the New England vaudeville and theater chain built up by Sylvester Z. Poli, which ran houses across Massachusetts and Connecticut. The subject headings also list the building as a motion picture theater, a reminder that in the 1920s many downtown houses offered both live stage acts and films. The Library of Congress holds the drawing in its architecture and engineering collection, which is valued for documenting the design of commercial buildings of the period.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1925
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Worcester--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Worcester--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,124 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210391

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