[Keith Albee New Bijou Theatre, Washington and Essex Streets, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927. – Antique Poster Print
![[Keith Albee New Bijou Theatre, Washington and Essex Streets, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/90/90ccf6b7a816-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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This vintage poster of [Keith Albee New Bijou Theatre, Washington and Essex Streets, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Keith Albee New Bijou Theatre, Washington and Essex Streets, Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1927.
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The drawing shows the Keith Albee New Bijou theater at the corner of Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston, a site in the city's busy theater district. The Keith-Albee circuit was one of the largest vaudeville organizations in the country, and during the 1920s its houses increasingly combined live acts with motion pictures as film grew in popularity. Rendered in ink on paper and dated 1927, the sheet is a working architectural drawing, the kind used to plan a building's layout and details before construction. It offers a useful record of how these large downtown playhouses were conceived in the years just before sound film transformed the industry.
| 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 | 4,142 × 3,303 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210465 |
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