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[Majestic Theatre, Asylum St. near Haynes St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921. – Antique Poster Print

[Majestic Theatre, Asylum St. near Haynes St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Majestic Theatre, Asylum St. near Haynes St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921., 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 rare vintage poster captures [Majestic Theatre, Asylum St. near Haynes St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Majestic Theatre, Asylum St. near Haynes St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1921.

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Asylum Street, one of downtown Hartford's main thoroughfares, is the setting for this 1921 ink drawing of the Majestic theater, which was drawn near its intersection with Haynes Street. Its survival in the Library of Congress's architecture, design and engineering holdings makes it a useful record of how a Connecticut movie house was planned in the early 1920s. That was a period when motion pictures were moving into purpose-built theaters, and downtown houses like this one were designed to draw large evening crowds. The drawing shows how the building was laid out on paper before construction.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1921
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,085 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210617

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