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[Garrick Theatre (Schiller Theatre) and Wood's Theatre, East Randolph St. and North Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Garrick Theatre (Schiller Theatre) and Wood's Theatre, East Randolph St. and North Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Garrick Theatre (Schiller Theatre) and Wood's Theatre, East Randolph St. and North Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932., 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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[Garrick Theatre (Schiller Theatre) and Wood's Theatre, East Randolph St. and North Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois] / AFD 1932.

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Few pictures on this board show a building as a working drawing, and this one records two theaters that shared a corner in Chicago's Loop: the Garrick, also known as the Schiller, and Wood's theater, at East Randolph and North Dearborn streets. Drawn in ink on paper in 1932, it is an architectural survey rather than a view of the crowds or productions inside. The Loop's theater district was then shifting toward motion pictures, and drawings like this one document how older playhouses were laid out at a time when their uses were changing. The subject tags for the record place both buildings in Chicago during the 1930s, which helps set the drawing in the period of that transition.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1932
SubjectsTheaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Illinois--Chicago--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,338 × 4,080 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210604

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