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[Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928. – Vintage Poster

[Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., 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 [Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Keith-Albee St. James Theatre (Boston Player Stock Company), Huntington Ave. near Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928.

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Few Boston theaters of the late 1920s show the city's stage and screen changing as clearly as this 1928 ink drawing of the Keith-Albee St. James theater on Huntington Avenue near Massachusetts Avenue. The Keith-Albee name ties the building to the vaudeville circuit run by B.F. Keith and E.F. Albee, while the parenthetical note in its title points to a stock company associated with the house. Drawings like this one were made as architectural and engineering records to guide a building's layout, elevations and structure, so the sheet shows the design intentions as well as the finished theater. Its subject headings, which include motion picture theaters, reflect how many large houses of the decade were built to host both live acts and films.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1928
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,097 × 3,316 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210385

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