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[East Blue Lodge Room, Masonic Temple, Detroit] – Vintage Print

[East Blue Lodge Room, Masonic Temple, Detroit], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[East Blue Lodge Room, Masonic Temple, Detroit], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [East Blue Lodge Room, Masonic Temple, Detroit]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[East Blue Lodge Room, Masonic Temple, Detroit]

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The East Blue Lodge Room was one of the meeting halls inside Detroit's Masonic Temple, where members of a Blue Lodge, the first three degrees of Freemasonry, held their ceremonies and business meetings. This 8 by 10 inch glass negative was made around 1900 to 1910 by the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that photographed the city, its buildings, and its institutions for sale as views. Its record notes a painter or decorating firm's label on the jacket, a small clue that interiors like this were often photographed to show off finished work. The plate reached the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Harry J. Dean Co." on jacket; probably painters or decorators. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 042820. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsFraternal organizations. Organizations' facilities. Interiors.United States--Michigan--Detroit.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-69860

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