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[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Palace Theatre, National Theatre, and Columbia Theatre, all on Monroe St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD., 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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This drawing shows three theaters side by side on Monroe Street in Detroit: the Palace, the National, and the Columbia. Putting them on one sheet suggests the street was a concentrated entertainment district, where a visitor could choose among stage shows and motion pictures within a short walk. Detroit's downtown theaters multiplied in the 1920s as movies drew large crowds and as vaudeville and film palaces competed for audiences. Ink drawings like this one, made around 1930, record how such buildings were designed and presented to the public before many of them changed hands or were altered.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre[ca. 1930]
SubjectsTheaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1940. Motion picture theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,320 × 4,102 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210479

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