[Proctor's E. Jersey St. Theatre (Jacob's Theatre), East Jersey St. near Broad St., Elizabeth, New Jersey] / AFD. – Vintage Poster Wall Art
![[Proctor's E. Jersey St. Theatre (Jacob's Theatre), East Jersey St. near Broad St., Elizabeth, New Jersey] / AFD., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/fe/fee75fee22d5-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: [Proctor's E. Jersey St. Theatre (Jacob's Theatre), East Jersey St. near Broad St., Elizabeth, New Jersey] / AFD., 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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[Proctor's E. Jersey St. Theatre (Jacob's Theatre), East Jersey St. near Broad St., Elizabeth, New Jersey] / AFD.
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Few pictures on this board are working drawings rather than photographs, and this ink plan of Proctor's East Jersey Street theater, also called Jacob's theater, shows the building as its designers laid it out. It stood on East Jersey Street near Broad Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and the Library of Congress dates the drawing to about 1920, when vaudeville and motion pictures were drawing large crowds into theaters like this one. The Proctor name refers to the vaudeville circuit run by Frederick Freeman Proctor, whose houses in the Northeast mixed live acts with films. The drawing belongs to the library's architecture, engineering and design collection.
| Created / published | And Engineering (ADE) Drawings |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : ink on paper. |
| Genre | [ca. 1920] |
| Subjects | Theaters--New Jersey--Elizabeth--1910-1930. Motion picture theaters--New Jersey--Elizabeth--1910-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,225 × 3,346 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210492 |
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