[Cross Key Theatre, Market St. and 60th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] – Historic Poster Reproduction
![[Cross Key Theatre, Market St. and 60th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/80cbd8e237c7-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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A window into the past: [Cross Key Theatre, Market St. and 60th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], preserved in this vintage poster. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Cross Key Theatre, Market St. and 60th St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
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This ink drawing shows the Cross Keys theater at the corner of Market Street and 60th Street in West Philadelphia, a neighborhood stop on one of the city's busiest commercial corridors. Its subject is a movie house built during the 1920s and 1930s, when neighborhood theaters multiplied across American cities as moving pictures became the most popular entertainment of the day. Architectural drawings like this one record the building's street frontage and planning, offering a look at how such theaters were designed to draw crowds from the sidewalk. The drawing is useful for anyone studying the built environment of Philadelphia's theater district and its changing commercial streets.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | [ca. 1930] |
| Subjects | Theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1920-1940. Motion picture theaters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1920-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,298 × 4,146 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210519 |
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