[Selwyn's Park Sq. Theatre, formerly Cort Theatre, Providence St. and Park Sq., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922. – Antique Poster Print
![[Selwyn's Park Sq. Theatre, formerly Cort Theatre, Providence St. and Park Sq., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6c/6ccaa91a0220-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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Step back in time with [Selwyn's Park Sq. Theatre, formerly Cort Theatre, Providence St. and Park Sq., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Selwyn's Park Sq. Theatre, formerly Cort Theatre, Providence St. and Park Sq., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1922.
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Few buildings on this board were drawn as carefully as this 1922 ink plan of the Selwyn's Park Square theater, which stood at the corner of Providence Street and Park Square in Boston. The building had been known as the Cort theater before the Selwyn name came to it, a change that reflects how often Boston's playhouses changed hands in the early twentieth century. Drawings like this one record a theater's layout, including its seating, stage, and circulation, at a time when movie houses and live stage productions were competing for the same urban audiences. The ADE collection at the Library of Congress preserves such plans as a record of how these interiors were built and used.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1922 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,129 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210462 |
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