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[Center Blue Lodge Room, Masonic temple, Detroit] – Historic Print

[Center Blue Lodge Room, Masonic temple, Detroit], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Center 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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[Center Blue Lodge Room, Masonic temple, Detroit]

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The Center Blue Lodge Room, a meeting hall inside Detroit's Masonic temple, shows the ceremonial space where members gathered for the first three degrees of Freemasonry. The photograph was made on an 8-by-10-inch glass plate sometime between 1900 and 1910, a period when fraternal organizations drew large memberships in American cities. It is part of the Detroit Publishing Company's work, a firm that documented cities and buildings across the country and sold the views to publishers and the public. The wide, straight-on view makes it useful for seeing the furnishings and decoration of the era.

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. 042821. 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-69861

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