[Academy of Music and Star & Garter Theatre (Columbia Burlesque), North Halsted St. and West Madison St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928. – Vintage Poster
![[Academy of Music and Star & Garter Theatre (Columbia Burlesque), North Halsted St. and West Madison St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/61/615448c1f498-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [Academy of Music and Star & Garter Theatre (Columbia Burlesque), North Halsted St. and West Madison St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Academy of Music and Star & Garter Theatre (Columbia Burlesque), North Halsted St. and West Madison St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928.
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This ink drawing records a building that housed two entertainment venues at the busy corner of North Halsted and West Madison streets in Chicago: the Academy of Music and the Star & Garter theater, later known as the Columbia Burlesque house. Made in 1928, it is one of the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering drawings of Chicago theaters from the 1920s, a decade when movie palaces and vaudeville and burlesque houses were transforming the city's entertainment districts. The drawing's subject headings also tie it to the rise of motion picture theaters, so it captures a building caught between older stage traditions and the new film era.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1928 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,316 × 4,089 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210624 |
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