[Orpheum Theatre (Grand Opera House), Memphis, Tennessee] / AFD 1929. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Orpheum Theatre (Grand Opera House), Memphis, Tennessee] / AFD 1929., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/87ad3d8c68f4-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: [Orpheum Theatre (Grand Opera House), Memphis, Tennessee] / AFD 1929., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Orpheum Theatre (Grand Opera House), Memphis, Tennessee] / AFD 1929.
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The Orpheum theater in Memphis, Tennessee, was built in 1928 and 1929 as the Grand Opera House, a large movie and vaudeville house on Main Street, and this ink drawing records its design in the architectural and engineering drawings the Library of Congress holds under the Historic American Buildings Survey-era architecture collections. Movie palaces of the late 1920s combined stage facilities for live performance with screens and sound equipment, and drawings like this one show how those layouts were planned. The Orpheum is notable among Memphis theaters of its era, and the drawing offers a precise view of a building that once anchored the city's entertainment district.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1929 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Tennessee--Memphis--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Tennessee--Memphis--1920-1930. Opera houses--Tennessee--Memphis--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,098 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210595 |
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