[Haymarket Theatre, W. Madison St. near N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Haymarket Theatre, W. Madison St. near N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/65/65a50d90c5a7-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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This rare vintage poster captures [Haymarket Theatre, W. Madison St. near N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Haymarket Theatre, W. Madison St. near N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1928.
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The Haymarket theater stood on West Madison Street near North Halsted Street, on Chicago's Near West Side, and this ink drawing records it in 1928, the same decade that movie palaces were spreading across the city. The name recalled the Haymarket, the old produce and meat market district where the 1886 labor rally and bombing took place. The drawing belongs to the Architecture, Decorative and Engineering collection, so its linework is meant to document the building's design and plan rather than to serve as a pictorial view. It is a useful record of how neighborhood theaters of the period were laid out for both live performance and film.
| 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 | 4,137 × 3,311 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210426 |
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