[RKO Orpheum Theatre and New Mississippi Hotel, West 3rd St. and Brady St., Davenport, Iowa] / AFD 1933. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[RKO Orpheum Theatre and New Mississippi Hotel, West 3rd St. and Brady St., Davenport, Iowa] / AFD 1933., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b0/b02d4822127e-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 [RKO Orpheum Theatre and New Mississippi Hotel, West 3rd St. and Brady St., Davenport, Iowa] / AFD 1933. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[RKO Orpheum Theatre and New Mississippi Hotel, West 3rd St. and Brady St., Davenport, Iowa] / AFD 1933.
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Drawn in ink on paper in 1933, this sheet shows the RKO Orpheum theater and the New Mississippi Hotel together on one block at West Third and Brady streets in Davenport, Iowa. The Orpheum name came from the vaudeville circuit that RKO absorbed when the company was formed in 1928, so the theater carried a live stage-show tradition into the sound-film era. The drawing is part of the Library of Congress architecture and engineering holdings, and it shows how a movie house and a hotel were planned to share a street front in a Depression-era Midwestern city.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1933 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Iowa--Davenport--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Iowa--Davenport--1930-1940. Hotels--Iowa--Davenport--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,212 × 3,289 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210424 |
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