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[Grand Theatre, Main St. near Windsor St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1920. – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Grand Theatre, Main St. near Windsor St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Grand Theatre, Main St. near Windsor St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1920., 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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This vintage poster of [Grand Theatre, Main St. near Windsor St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1920. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Grand Theatre, Main St. near Windsor St., Hartford, Connecticut] / AFD 1920.

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Among the Hartford theater pictures here, this ink drawing stands out as an architectural document rather than a photograph. It records the Grand theater on Main Street near Windsor Street in 1920 as a set of drawn lines. It belongs to the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering drawings, which preserve plans for buildings across the country. The record identifies it as a motion picture theater, reflecting the rapid growth of film houses in the 1910s and 1920s, when many American downtowns built purpose-designed cinemas along their main streets.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1920
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--Hartford--1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,137 × 3,311 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210612

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