[Masonic Temple Theatre, State St. and Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1935. – Vintage Poster
![[Masonic Temple Theatre, State St. and Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1935., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/abae42d20d8f-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 rare vintage poster captures [Masonic Temple Theatre, State St. and Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1935. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Masonic Temple Theatre, State St. and Randolph St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1935.
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This ink-on-paper drawing documents the Masonic Temple theater at State and Randolph streets in Chicago, a site that was already known as a landmark of the city's downtown. Its 1935 date places it in the Depression years, when Chicago's theaters were competing for audiences with movie houses that had grown from nickelodeons into large, elaborately decorated palaces. Drawings like this one, cataloged in the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering collection, record the building's structure and layout in precise detail. Their technical lines and labels are worth a close look, since they show how a working theater was planned before it existed as a public space.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1935 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,329 × 4,173 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210438 |
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