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[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Washington St. near Boylston St., and Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, Court St. opposite Hanover St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1921. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Washington St. near Boylston St., and Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, Court St. opposite Hanover St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1921., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Washington St. near Boylston St., and Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, Court St. opposite Hanover St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1921., 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 rare vintage poster captures [Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Washington St. near Boylston St., and Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, Court St. opposite Hanover St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1921. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Gordon's Olympia Theatre, Washington St. near Boylston St., and Gordon's Scollay Square Olympia Theatre, Court St. opposite Hanover St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1921.

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Gordon's Olympia theater stood on Washington Street near Boylston Street in Boston, and this ink drawing records it alongside a second Gordon's Olympia at Court Street opposite Hanover Street in Scollay Square. Both were designed for Gordon's, a Boston theater chain that ran motion picture houses through the 1910s and 1920s, and the drawing dates to 1921, when the city's downtown was packed with movie palaces competing for crowds. The record comes from the Library of Congress's American Architectural Drawings collection, which holds plans and elevations of Boston-area buildings from the period. Because such drawings were working documents, they show a building's intended layout and façade rather than its finished appearance.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1921
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,329 × 4,088 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210379

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