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[Ascher's West Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1938. – Vintage Poster

[Ascher's West Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1938., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Ascher's West Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1938., 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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A window into the past: [Ascher's West Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1938., preserved in this vintage poster. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Ascher's West Englewood Theatre, Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1938.

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This ink drawing documents Ascher's West Englewood theater, a neighborhood movie house on Chicago's South Side, and its 1938 date places it in the decade when neighborhood cinemas were being built and remodeled across the city. Working drawings like this one record the building's plans and details for contractors and inspectors, so they show how a theater was laid out before it was ever seen by a moviegoer. In the 1930s, many Chicago neighborhood theaters adopted streamlined, Moderne-influenced designs, and the drawing offers a window into the practical planning behind that look. Its survival in a federal architectural collection makes it a useful record of how these local entertainment spaces were conceived.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1938
SubjectsTheaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,085 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210606

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