[Avenue Theatre, Woodward Ave. and Larned E. (?) St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1930. – Antique Poster Print
![[Avenue Theatre, Woodward Ave. and Larned E. (?) St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1930., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/75/7506817fb6eb-L.webp)
(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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[Avenue Theatre, Woodward Ave. and Larned E. (?) St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1930. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Avenue Theatre, Woodward Ave. and Larned E. (?) St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1930.
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The Avenue theater stood on Woodward Avenue, one of Detroit's main north-south thoroughfares, though the record leaves its cross street uncertain. This ink-on-paper drawing from 1930 is part of the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering drawings collection, which holds plans and elevations of buildings from across the country. It reflects the late 1920s and early 1930s boom in movie houses, when theaters were often built as large, ornamented public buildings in busy commercial districts. Hand-inked drawings like this one show how architects communicated a building's design to builders.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1930 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1930. Motion picture theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,115 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210392 |
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