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Dome of Elks National Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois – Historic Photo Reproduction

Dome of Elks National Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois, c1926 Dec. 29. — historic photograph
Dome of Elks National Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois, c1926 Dec. 29.. Historic photograph from the Chicago 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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This historic photograph of Dome of Elks National Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Dome of Elks National Memorial Building, Chicago, Illinois

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The dome is the feature that sets this view apart. It crowns the Elks National Memorial Building, a lakefront structure that the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks built in Chicago as a memorial to members who served in the First World War. The fraternal order raised the building as a gathering place and tribute, and its monumental scale reflected the civic ambitions of Chicago in the mid-1920s. This print, dated to about 1926 on its caption card, was copyrighted by photographer E.L. Fowler, whose work documents the city's architecture of that decade. The date and attribution come from the caption card and have not been independently verified.

Created / publishedc1926 Dec. 29.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by E.L. Fowler. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,129 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-159948

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