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[Shea's Park Theatre (Smith's Colonial Theatre), Main St. near State St., Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920. – Vintage Poster

[Shea's Park Theatre (Smith's Colonial Theatre), Main St. near State St., Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Shea's Park Theatre (Smith's Colonial Theatre), Main St. near State St., Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., 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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This vintage poster of [Shea's Park Theatre (Smith's Colonial Theatre), Main St. near State St., Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920. brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Shea's Park Theatre (Smith's Colonial Theatre), Main St. near State St., Bridgeport, Connecticut] / AFD 1920.

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The drawing is titled for Shea's Park theater, a building that later appeared under the name Smith's Colonial theater. It sat on Main Street near State Street, in the commercial heart of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Dated 1920, the ink drawing comes from a period when vaudeville houses and early motion picture theaters were reshaping downtown entertainment across the country, and the record tags it as both a theater and a motion picture theater. Drawings like this one, held in the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering collection, show how a downtown theater was planned on paper.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1920
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Bridgeport--1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,080 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210621

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