[Metropolitan Theatre and Ye Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St. and Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Metropolitan Theatre and Ye Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St. and Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/87/87f31991dd59-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 [Metropolitan Theatre and Ye Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St. and Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Metropolitan Theatre and Ye Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St. and Hollis St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927.
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Tremont Street at Hollis was a busy corner of Boston's theater district in the 1920s, and this 1927 ink drawing records the Metropolitan theater and Ye Wilbur theater standing side by side there. It survives as a working architectural document in the Library of Congress's collection of American architectural and engineering drawings. During that decade, downtown Boston houses were adding motion pictures to live stage shows, and drawings like this one were used to plan and build such venues. The fine ink linework preserves the design of a block that drew large crowds to the city's entertainment trade.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1927 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,106 × 3,315 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210388 |
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