[Broadway Strand, Broadway near Gratiot St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1931. – Antique Poster Print
![[Broadway Strand, Broadway near Gratiot St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1931., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e5/e57891ecd963-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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Step back in time with [Broadway Strand, Broadway near Gratiot St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1931., 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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[Broadway Strand, Broadway near Gratiot St., Detroit, Michigan] / AFD 1931.
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The Broadway Strand drawing shows a movie theater on Broadway near Gratiot Street in downtown Detroit, rendered in ink on paper in 1931. Its location placed it in the city's Broadway theater district, where several large houses drew crowds during the years when motion pictures had become the dominant form of popular entertainment. Drawings like this one, made for architectural and engineering records, preserve the facade and layout of a building at a time when many such houses were altered, renamed, or demolished. Looking closely at the linework shows how architects planned a theater's street presence and its public entrance.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1931 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Michigan--Detroit--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,107 × 3,347 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210393 |
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