Grand Lodge room of the new Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street Philadelphia – Antique Photo 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: Grand Lodge room of the new Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street Philadelphia, preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Grand Lodge room of the new Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street Philadelphia
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The room shown here is the Grand Lodge chamber in the new Masonic Hall on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, a meeting space for the governing body of Pennsylvania's Freemasons. The print dates to about 1855, a period when Masonic lodges in American cities built large halls to house their ceremonies, libraries and civic gatherings. Its status as a copyright deposit means it was submitted to register the image for copyright, so it also records how an interior of this kind was publicly presented at the time. Viewers can compare its furnishings and layout with other lodge interiors of the period.
| Created / published | c1855. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Genre | Max." |
| Notes | Copyright Deposit |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,330 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110403 |
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