Elks Club and the opera house, Vicksburg, Miss. – Vintage Print
![Elks Club and the opera house, Vicksburg, Miss., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/97/975c524bf13d-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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Elks Club and the opera house, Vicksburg, Miss. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Elks Club and the opera house, Vicksburg, Miss.
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The Elks lodge and opera house in Vicksburg, Mississippi, appear together in this view, a pairing that shows how a river city combined fraternal clubs with a stage for touring companies in the 1910s. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was founded in New York in 1868 and built lodge halls in towns across the country, often near the local theater where dances, lectures and traveling shows drew the community. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made this large glass negative, sold views of American towns to railroads and publishers, so the photograph serves both as a local record and as national promotion.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1920] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | G 6826" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073336. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Organizations' facilities. Fraternal organizations. Opera houses.United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 796 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-74209 |
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