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[Loew's Theatre (High St. Theatre), W. Broad St. opposite RKO Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio] / AFD 1939. – Vintage Poster

[Loew's Theatre (High St. Theatre), W. Broad St. opposite RKO Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio] / AFD 1939., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Loew's Theatre (High St. Theatre), W. Broad St. opposite RKO Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio] / AFD 1939., 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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Step back in time with [Loew's Theatre (High St. Theatre), W. Broad St. opposite RKO Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio] / AFD 1939., a vintage poster rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Loew's Theatre (High St. Theatre), W. Broad St. opposite RKO Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio] / AFD 1939.

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This ink drawing shows the Loew's theater, also known as the High Street theater, on West Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, set directly across from the RKO Palace theater. The drawing dates to 1939 and belongs to the Library of Congress's Architecture, Design and Engineering drawings, a collection that records buildings as technical plans rather than as photographs. In the late 1930s, Broad Street was one of the city's main entertainment corridors, and the pairing of two rival movie houses on facing sides of the street reflected the era's competition for audiences. Its precise linework makes it useful for studying how theaters of that period were laid out and drawn.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1939
SubjectsTheaters--Ohio--Columbus--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Ohio--Columbus--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,106 × 3,298 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210512

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