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[Parson's Theatre, Prospect St. opposite post office, American Row, Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921. – Antique Poster Print

[Parson's Theatre, Prospect St. opposite post office, American Row, Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Parson's Theatre, Prospect St. opposite post office, American Row, Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921., 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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [Parson's Theatre, Prospect St. opposite post office, American Row, Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Parson's Theatre, Prospect St. opposite post office, American Row, Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921.

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Parson's theater stood on Prospect Street, across from the post office on American Row in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. This 1921 ink drawing belongs to the Historic American Buildings Survey and Architectural and Engineering collection, so it records the building's design in measured detail rather than showing it as a street scene. The Hartford sheets in this group reflect a period when vaudeville houses and new motion picture theaters were reshaping the city's commercial center. Drawings like this one help show how such buildings were laid out for audiences, stages and street-front entrances.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1921
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,076 × 3,277 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210609

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