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[Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana] – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana], 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: [Orpheum Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana], preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Orpheum theater in New Orleans is the subject here, and this ink drawing is a design record rather than a view of the stage. Its catalog entry places it in the American Drawings and Engineering collection of the Library of Congress, with the date given as about 1930. The Orpheum was one of several movie palaces that rose in New Orleans during the 1920s and 1930s, when sound film drew large crowds and theater owners competed on grandeur. Architectural drawings like this one show how such buildings were planned, down to their structure and layout, and they remain useful to historians of American theater design.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre[ca. 1930]
SubjectsTheaters--Louisiana--New Orleans--1920-1940. Motion picture theaters--Louisiana--New Orleans--1920-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,294 × 4,128 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210746

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