[Auditorium Theatre and Congress Hotel, Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1936. – Historic Poster Reproduction
![[Auditorium Theatre and Congress Hotel, Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1936., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/5011b830b11d-L.webp)
(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: [Auditorium Theatre and Congress Hotel, Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1936., 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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[Auditorium Theatre and Congress Hotel, Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1936.
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Few buildings in Chicago carry the weight of the Auditorium complex on Wabash Avenue, which pairs a large theater with a hotel under one roof. Designed by Adler & Sullivan and completed in 1889, the Auditorium Building was celebrated for its acoustics and for Louis Sullivan's ornamental interiors. This 1936 ink drawing comes from the Library of Congress's architecture and engineering holdings, and its subject headings tie it to the 1930s, when Chicago's large houses were adapting to motion pictures and changing audiences. The record does not say what work the drawing documented, so its exact purpose is best read from the drawing itself.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1936 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Hotels--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,360 × 4,172 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210427 |
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