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[Garde Theatre, State St. opposite public library, New London, Connecticut] / AFD 1931. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Garde Theatre, State St. opposite public library, New London, Connecticut] / AFD 1931., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Garde Theatre, State St. opposite public library, New London, Connecticut] / AFD 1931., 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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[Garde Theatre, State St. opposite public library, New London, Connecticut] / AFD 1931.

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The Garde theater stood on State Street, across from the New London public library, and this 1931 ink drawing records it as a movie house in a Connecticut port city where the cinema had become a regular part of downtown life. The sheet belongs to the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering collection, where drawings like this document a building's plans and elevations for construction, alteration or record. Its subjects are listed among the city's motion picture theaters of the 1930s, a reminder that many downtown houses of the period were designed as much to draw passersby as to seat audiences. The Garde later became a performing arts center, so the drawing preserves how its street front was conceived before that change.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1931
SubjectsTheaters--Connecticut--New London--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--New London--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,093 × 3,324 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210655

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