[B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre (B.F. Keith Vaudeville), Washington St. near Avery St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929. – Vintage Poster
![[B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre (B.F. Keith Vaudeville), Washington St. near Avery St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fa/fa061c6cee0b-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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A window into the past: [B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre (B.F. Keith Vaudeville), Washington St. near Avery St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[B.F. Keith Memorial Theatre (B.F. Keith Vaudeville), Washington St. near Avery St., Boston, Massachusetts] / AFD 1929.
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Drawn in ink on paper in 1929, this architectural drawing records the B.F. Keith Memorial theater on Washington Street near Avery Street in Boston, a house named for Benjamin Franklin Keith, the vaudeville impresario. The building arrived as vaudeville was losing ground to motion pictures, and the Keith circuit merged into the new RKO company in 1928, which makes the theater a useful marker of that transition. Its designers were trained to plan audiences, sightlines and stage machinery as carefully as facades, so the drawing rewards a close look at how a single house was meant to hold both live acts and films.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | 1929 |
| Subjects | Theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. Motion picture theaters--Massachusetts--Boston--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,137 × 3,302 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210386 |
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