[Newark Theatre (before) and Newark Paramont Theatre (after), Market St. near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1934. – Antique Poster Print
![[Newark Theatre (before) and Newark Paramont Theatre (after), Market St. near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1934., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6a60a8e8d000-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: [Newark Theatre (before) and Newark Paramont Theatre (after), Market St. near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1934., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Newark Theatre (before) and Newark Paramont Theatre (after), Market St. near Broad St., Newark, New Jersey] / AFD 1934.
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Few images on this board show a building's transformation as directly as this ink drawing, which pairs the Newark theater on Market Street near Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey, with its later form as the Newark Paramount theater. Drawings like this one record how a 1930s renovation reshaped a downtown movie house, altering its street front and interior to suit the era's taste for streamlined, glamorous motion picture palaces. The sheet is a rare case where the before and after appear side by side, letting viewers compare the old and new designs. It belongs to the architectural and engineering drawings held by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, where it is catalogued under theater and motion picture house subjects for Newark in the 1930s.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1934 |
| Subjects | Theaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Newark--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,289 × 4,132 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210555 |
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