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[Waldorf Theatre, Summer St. near Market St., Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Waldorf Theatre, Summer St. near Market St., Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Waldorf Theatre, Summer St. near Market St., Lynn, 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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A window into the past: [Waldorf Theatre, Summer St. near Market St., Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Waldorf Theatre, Summer St. near Market St., Lynn, Massachusetts] / AFD 1928.

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The Waldorf theater stood on Summer Street near Market Street in Lynn, Massachusetts, a shoe-manufacturing city on the North Shore that by the late 1920s had many theaters serving its working-class neighborhoods. This 1928 ink drawing is an architectural record of the building, the kind of technical sheet made during planning or construction. Its subject places it within the wave of motion picture houses that spread across American cities in the 1920s, when films moved from storefront nickelodeons into larger, more elaborate auditoriums. The drawing offers a view of how a neighborhood theater was conceived on paper before it was built.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1928
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Lynn--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Lynn--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,102 × 3,333 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210390

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