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[Capitol Theatre and RKO Orpheum Theatre, State St. near North Fairchild St., Madison, Wisconsin] / AFD 1933. – Antique Poster Print

[Capitol Theatre and RKO Orpheum Theatre, State St. near North Fairchild St., Madison, Wisconsin] / AFD 1933., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Capitol Theatre and RKO Orpheum Theatre, State St. near North Fairchild St., Madison, Wisconsin] / AFD 1933., 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: [Capitol Theatre and RKO Orpheum Theatre, State St. near North Fairchild St., Madison, Wisconsin] / AFD 1933., 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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[Capitol Theatre and RKO Orpheum Theatre, State St. near North Fairchild St., Madison, Wisconsin] / AFD 1933.

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State Street runs from the Wisconsin State Capitol toward the University of Wisconsin campus, and this 1933 ink drawing captures two theaters on that busy downtown stretch, the Capitol theater and the RKO Orpheum theater, near North Fairchild Street. Architectural and engineering drawings like this one were made to plan and record a building's form, so the sheet shows the layout and design work behind the houses rather than their street-level appearance. In the early 1930s, movie houses and former vaudeville venues were central to downtown entertainment, and a drawing that includes two theaters on one site offers a useful view of how those buildings were organized at the time.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1933
SubjectsTheaters--Wisconsin--Madison--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Wisconsin--Madison--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,133 × 3,320 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210582

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