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[Rivoli Theatre, Main St. and Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey] / AFD 1931. – Vintage Poster

[Rivoli Theatre, Main St. and Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey] / AFD 1931., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Rivoli Theatre, Main St. and Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey] / AFD 1931., 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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[Rivoli Theatre, Main St. and Broadway, Paterson, New Jersey] / AFD 1931. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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This ink drawing documents the Rivoli theater at the corner of Main Street and Broadway in Paterson, New Jersey, a city long known for its silk mills and dense downtown. Its catalog number, AFD 1931, places it in the Library of Congress's architecture, design and engineering drawings holdings, and the drawing reflects the architectural plans that shaped many neighborhood movie houses of the early 1930s. That was a period when sound films had recently transformed the business, and theaters were often designed to draw crowds to busy urban corners. The sheet offers a useful record of how a commercial downtown theater was conceived during the Depression years.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1931
SubjectsTheaters--New Jersey--Paterson--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Paterson--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,120 × 3,303 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210637

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