Billiard room in Elks' club, N.Y.? – Antique Print
(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: Billiard room in Elks' club, N.Y.?, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Billiard room in Elks' club, N.Y.?
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A billiard room, rather than a meeting hall or bar, is the focus of this c1910 view of an Elks club, a detail that points to the social life of fraternal organizations of the period. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, founded in 1868, often included billiard and card rooms in its clubhouses as places for members to gather between meetings. The catalog title ends in a question mark about the location, so the exact city is uncertain, though the copyright notice credits F.B. Howard of Poughkeepsie, New York, as the photographer. Photoprints like this one were a common way to record the interiors of clubs and halls in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | c1910. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photoprint copyrighted by F.B. Howard, Poughkeepskie, N.Y. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Sports--Billiards; Fraternal Org. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,207 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156302 |
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