Illuminated monument for Elks Club convention at night, Detroit, Michigan
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Description
Nighttime view of illuminated monument for Elks Club convention, Detroit, Michigan. Monument is decorated with columns, statues of elk and statue of cupid in niche. Inscribed on monument: "The faults of our brothers we write upon the sand. Their virtues upon tablets of love and memory." Stamped on back: "Spooner & Wells, Inc., photographers, telephone North 1745. 1231 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, 1231 Woodward, New York, 1931 Broadway." Handwritten on back: "Conventions--Elks Club Convention, Detroit, Mi., 1910."
Details
- Creator:
- Spooner & Wells
- Resource ID:
- na006156
- Subject:
- Monuments--Michigan--Detroit
- Elks (Fraternal order)
- Congresses and conventions--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographers--Michigan--Detroit
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1910-07
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 9.25 x 7.25 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Collection:
- Lazarnick Collection
- Location:
- Conventions--Elks Club convention (Detroit, Mich.), 1910 #9
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.