[Olympia Theatre, Temple St. and Crown St., New Haven, Connecticut] / AFD 1924. – Vintage Poster
![[Olympia Theatre, Temple St. and Crown St., New Haven, Connecticut] / AFD 1924., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dc/dcf45af4ab3c-L.webp)
(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 rare vintage poster captures [Olympia Theatre, Temple St. and Crown St., New Haven, Connecticut] / AFD 1924. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Olympia Theatre, Temple St. and Crown St., New Haven, Connecticut] / AFD 1924.
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This ink drawing shows the Olympia theater at the corner of Temple and Crown streets in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, and is dated 1924. The record places it among the Library of Congress's architectural and engineering drawings, which preserve the working plans and elevations that guided how buildings were designed and built. In the 1920s, motion picture houses like the Olympia were often large, ornate buildings meant to draw crowds downtown, and their facades and interiors reflected the period's taste for showy decoration. The drawing gives a sense of how the theater was meant to look from the street before it was built or remodeled.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1924 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Connecticut--New Haven--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Connecticut--New Haven--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,111 × 3,285 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210660 |
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