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[Cort Theatre (American Music Hall), San Francisco, California] / AFD 1935. – Vintage Poster

[Cort Theatre (American Music Hall), San Francisco, California] / AFD 1935., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Cort Theatre (American Music Hall), San Francisco, California] / 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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Step back in time with [Cort Theatre (American Music Hall), San Francisco, California] / AFD 1935., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Cort Theatre (American Music Hall), San Francisco, California] / AFD 1935.

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This 1935 ink drawing records the Cort theater, which the title also gives as the American Music Hall, in San Francisco. Its name in the title points to a building that changed identity, and the subject headings list it under both theaters and motion picture theaters. Those categories reflect the 1930s, when many San Francisco houses that had staged live drama and vaudeville also screened films. The drawing belongs to the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering drawings, so it documents the building's design and layout as a working plan rather than as a view of the street.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1935
SubjectsTheaters--California--San Francisco--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--California--San Francisco--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,124 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210646

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