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[Poli's Theatre, South Main St. near post office, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1931. – Antique Poster Print

[Poli's Theatre, South Main St. near post office, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1931., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Poli's Theatre, South Main St. near post office, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / 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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[Poli's Theatre, South Main St. near post office, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania] / AFD 1931. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This ink drawing shows Poli's theater on South Main Street near the post office in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a city in the anthracite coal region. The Poli name belonged to a theater circuit founded by Sylvester Z. Poli, which built houses across Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, many of them originally for vaudeville. The drawing's subject headings classify the building as a motion picture theater, which reflects how many downtown houses of the early 1930s were adapted to show sound films. Architectural drawings like this one record a building's plan and design at a specific moment, so they are useful for studying how such theaters were laid out.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre1931
SubjectsTheaters--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Pennsylvania--Wilkes Barre--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,125 × 3,324 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210598

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