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[Orpheum Theatre and New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah] / AFD 1935. – Vintage Poster

[Orpheum Theatre and New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah] / AFD 1935., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Orpheum Theatre and New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah] / AFD 1935., 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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A window into the past: [Orpheum Theatre and New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah] / AFD 1935., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Orpheum Theatre and New Orpheum Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah] / AFD 1935.

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This ink drawing records two theaters in Salt Lake City, the Orpheum and the New Orpheum, as they stood in 1935. Its title pairs the two buildings, so it shows a theater and its successor side by side, not a single house. The Orpheum name tied the buildings to the national Orpheum circuit, which ran vaudeville and later film programs in cities across the country. In the 1930s, movie houses were the dominant form of public entertainment, and drawings like this one document how downtown theaters were planned and adapted for that audience.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1935
SubjectsTheaters--Utah--Salt Lake City--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Utah--Salt Lake City--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,089 × 3,307 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210602

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