[American Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska] / AFD 1935. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[American Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska] / AFD 1935., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/eb197b0e02d5-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 [American Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska] / AFD 1935., 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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[American Music Hall, Omaha, Nebraska] / AFD 1935.
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The American Music Hall in Omaha, Nebraska, is recorded here not as a photograph but as an ink and graphite drawing made in 1935, the kind of technical sheet used to plan or document a building's design. Its subject places it among the many theaters and movie houses that Omaha built and remodeled during the 1930s, when the Depression slowed construction and talkies had made cinemas the city's most popular public entertainment. Drawings like this one reveal layout, proportions and ornamentation that photographs of a finished interior often miss, which makes them valuable to architectural historians studying the period.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink and graphite on paper. |
| Genre | 1935 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Nebraska--Omaha--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Nebraska--Omaha--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,133 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210483 |
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