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[Capitol Theatre and Kahl Building, West 3rd St. and Ripley St., Davenport, Iowa] – Historic Poster Reproduction

[Capitol Theatre and Kahl Building, West 3rd St. and Ripley St., Davenport, Iowa], And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster
[Capitol Theatre and Kahl Building, West 3rd St. and Ripley St., Davenport, Iowa], 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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Downtown Davenport's West Third Street corner at Ripley Street is the setting here, where the Capitol theater shares a block with the Kahl Building. This 1933 ink drawing is an architectural record of that combined frontage, held in the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division. Its date falls in the early 1930s, when movie houses across the Midwest were adapting to synchronized sound and drawing crowds to large, ornamented downtown theaters. Theaters built as part of a commercial block like this one show how entertainment venues were woven into the everyday streetscape of American cities.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : ink on paper.
Genre[1933]
SubjectsTheaters--Iowa--Davenport--1930-1940. Motion picture theaters--Iowa--Davenport--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,133 × 3,346 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-210422

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