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[Orpheum Theatre, Butte, Montana, also sketches of glamorous women] / AFD 1938. – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Orpheum Theatre, Butte, Montana, also sketches of glamorous women] / AFD 1938., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Orpheum Theatre, Butte, Montana, also sketches of glamorous women] / AFD 1938., 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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The record names the Orpheum theater in Butte, Montana, and the drawing shares its sheet with sketches of glamorous women, which sets it apart from a plain architectural study. Butte was a mining city in the 1930s, and its movie houses drew large crowds from the surrounding district. The sheet's dating to 1938 places it in the late Depression years, when theaters across the country were often the most elaborate buildings in their towns. Its subject headings, which list motion picture theaters in Butte between 1930 and 1940, suggest it documents a commercial venue of that era, and the mix of architecture and figure studies gives a glimpse of how designers worked.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1938
SubjectsTheaters--Montana--Butte--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Montana--Butte--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,098 × 3,325 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210468

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