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[Wilmer & Vincent's Colonial Theatre, Hamilton St. and S. 5th St., Allentown, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Wilmer & Vincent's Colonial Theatre, Hamilton St. and S. 5th St., Allentown, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Wilmer & Vincent's Colonial Theatre, Hamilton St. and S. 5th St., Allentown, Pennsylvania] / 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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[Wilmer & Vincent's Colonial Theatre, Hamilton St. and S. 5th St., Allentown, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1928.

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Few things show a town's ambitions like a working drawing for a new theater, and this ink-on-paper sheet records the Colonial at the corner of Hamilton and South Fifth streets in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Dated 1928, it belongs to the Architecture, Design and Engineering drawings at the Library of Congress and is catalogued under theaters and motion picture houses, a sign of how quickly movies had become central to local entertainment. The design came from Wilmer & Vincent, a Reading, Pennsylvania firm that designed many theaters across the state during the 1920s. Drawings like this one served as the blueprint for every beam and facade detail, so they reveal a great deal about how such buildings were planned.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1928
SubjectsTheaters--Pennsylvania--Allentown--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Pennsylvania--Allentown--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,098 × 3,311 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210530

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