[The Gayety Theatre (Gayety Burlesque), Cadillac Square and Bates St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1923. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[The Gayety Theatre (Gayety Burlesque), Cadillac Square and Bates St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1923., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/81/81e528bdfa6e-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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of [The Gayety Theatre (Gayety Burlesque), Cadillac Square and Bates St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1923.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[The Gayety Theatre (Gayety Burlesque), Cadillac Square and Bates St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1923.
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The most distinctive detail here is the site itself: the Gayety theater stood at the corner of Cadillac Square and Bates Street in downtown Detroit. This 1923 ink drawing records the building as an architectural plan, the kind of document used to plan construction and guide builders. The Gayety was a burlesque house, a form of popular variety entertainment that drew large crowds in American cities in the early twentieth century. Cadillac Square was the city's central public space, named for Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Detroit in 1701, so the theater sat in the heart of the downtown entertainment district.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1923 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,115 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210383 |
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