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[Park Theatre, Washington St. and Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Park Theatre, Washington St. and Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Park Theatre, Washington St. and Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929., 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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[Park Theatre, Washington St. and Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929. 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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[Park Theatre, Washington St. and Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929.

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The Park theater drawing documents a building at the corner of Washington and Boylston streets in downtown Boston, a busy crossing near Park Square. Made in 1929, it is an ink-on-paper architectural drawing, the kind of working document used to plan a building's layout and construction. The decade was a period of heavy theater construction in American cities, as movie houses grew larger and more elaborate, and Boston's downtown theater district saw much of that change. The sheet is worth studying for its clean linework and for what it reveals about how theaters of the period were designed to handle crowds, sightlines and the new demands of motion pictures.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1929
SubjectsTheaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,155 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210417

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