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Union League Club, Cleveland, O[hio] – Antique Wall Art

Union League Club, Cleveland, O[hio], [between 1900 and 1906] — historic photograph
Union League Club, Cleveland, O[hio], [between 1900 and 1906]. Historic photograph from the Cleveland 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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Step back in time with Union League Club, Cleveland, O[hio], a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Union League Club of Cleveland is the subject here, a private men's club whose clubhouse stands as a physical record of the city's business and civic life in the early 1900s. Men's clubs like this one were common in American cities of the period, offering members dining rooms, reading rooms, and spaces for meetings away from home and office. The picture comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced large numbers of views of American towns, buildings, and streets, and this glass negative was catalogued in the company's 1906 listing. Its architecture and setting offer a useful glimpse of how Cleveland presented its prosperous institutions around the turn of the century.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1906]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). G 3010" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018637. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsClubhouses. Clubs.United States--Ohio--Cleveland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62141

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