[Poli's Palace Theatre and Poli's Majestic Theatre, Main St. Arch and Congress, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1923. – Antique Poster Print
![[Poli's Palace Theatre and Poli's Majestic Theatre, Main St. Arch and Congress, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1923., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/36/366cb3bc3340-L.webp)
(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 [Poli's Palace Theatre and Poli's Majestic Theatre, Main St. Arch and Congress, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1923., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Poli's Palace Theatre and Poli's Majestic Theatre, Main St. Arch and Congress, Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1923.
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Poli's Palace and Poli's Majestic were two theaters that stood together at the corner of Main Street and Arch and Congress Streets in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and this ink drawing records their design in 1923. The Poli name tied both houses to the vaudeville and motion picture circuit that Sylvester Z. Poli built across New England in the early twentieth century, when Bridgeport was a busy industrial city with a strong downtown entertainment district. Architectural drawings like this one show how such theaters were laid out for audiences, stages and street fronts, and they are a useful record of the building type at the height of the silent film era.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1923 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,081 × 3,320 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210658 |
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