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[Arcadia Theatre, Market St. near 6th St., Wilmington, Delaware] / AFD 1934. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Arcadia Theatre, Market St. near 6th St., Wilmington, Delaware] / AFD 1934., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Arcadia Theatre, Market St. near 6th St., Wilmington, Delaware] / 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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A window into the past: [Arcadia Theatre, Market St. near 6th St., Wilmington, Delaware] / AFD 1934., preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Arcadia Theatre, Market St. near 6th St., Wilmington, Delaware] / AFD 1934.

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Market Street, near Sixth Street in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, is the setting for this 1934 ink drawing of the Arcadia theater. It belongs to a Library of Congress collection documenting Wilmington theaters in the 1930s, when movie houses were a common and affordable part of American city life. Drawings like this one record a building's design and street front at a time when such theaters anchored their blocks.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1934
SubjectsTheaters--Delaware--Wilmington--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Delaware--Wilmington--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,334 × 4,124 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210654

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