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[Paramont Theatre (formerly The Capitol), West 7th St. corner St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934. – Antique Poster Print

[Paramont Theatre (formerly The Capitol), West 7th St. corner St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Paramont Theatre (formerly The Capitol), West 7th St. corner St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934., 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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[Paramont Theatre (formerly The Capitol), West 7th St. corner St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Paramont Theatre (formerly The Capitol), West 7th St. corner St. Peter St., St. Paul, Minnesota] / AFD 1934.

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The corner of West Seventh Street and St. Peter Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the site of a theater that opened as The Capitol and was later renamed the Paramount, the name this drawing uses. The ink drawing dates from 1934, a period when many American movie houses were remodeled to reflect the streamlined Art Deco and Moderne styles then popular. Drawings like this one were used to plan a building's layout, façade, and fittings, so they show how a theater was meant to look and function before construction or alteration began. Its subject, a motion picture house in a Midwestern city, reflects how the film industry shaped downtown architecture in the 1930s.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1934
SubjectsTheaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Minnesota--St. Paul--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,089 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210471

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