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[Loew's State Theatre, Market St. and Taylor St., San Francisco, California] / AFD 1938. – Vintage Poster

[Loew's State Theatre, Market St. and Taylor St., San Francisco, California] / AFD 1938., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Loew's State Theatre, Market St. and Taylor St., San Francisco, California] / AFD 1938., 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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[Loew's State Theatre, Market St. and Taylor St., San Francisco, California] / AFD 1938. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Loew's State Theatre, Market St. and Taylor St., San Francisco, California] / AFD 1938.

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Market and Taylor streets in San Francisco was the site of the Loew's State theater, one of the large movie houses that lined the Market Street corridor in the 1930s. This 1938 ink drawing records the building at a time when film palaces were central to city life, drawing crowds to downtown for double features, newsreels and stage shows. Because it is a drawing rather than a photograph, it shows the design and layout as the architects and draftsmen intended them, which makes it useful for studying how theaters of the period were planned. Its subject headings place it within a wider group of San Francisco theater records from the 1930s.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1938
SubjectsTheaters--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--California--San Francisco--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,098 × 3,315 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210653

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