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[Walnut Theatre, Walnut St. near 4th St., Louisville, Kentucky] / AFD 1934. – Antique Poster Print

[Walnut Theatre, Walnut St. near 4th St., Louisville, Kentucky] / AFD 1934., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Walnut Theatre, Walnut St. near 4th St., Louisville, Kentucky] / AFD 1934., 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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The Walnut theater stood on Walnut Street near Fourth Street in downtown Louisville, and this ink drawing records the building as it was designed in 1934. Architectural and engineering drawings like this one were made to document the plan and construction of a building, so they show the layout, proportions, and decisions of the architect rather than the atmosphere of a night at the movies. Louisville's downtown theaters of the 1930s were central to the city's entertainment life during the Depression, when going to the pictures was among the cheapest ways to spend an evening. The subject tags mark it as a motion picture theater, a reminder of how quickly the film houses of that decade reshaped American main streets.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1934
SubjectsTheaters--Kentucky--Louisville--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Kentucky--Louisville--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,124 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210425

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