Title etched within image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., In pen upper right: 48., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Photograph album containing 36 black and white photographs by unidentified photographers depicting the process of rehabilitating the lodge of the Elks fraternal order in Manila, Philippines from 1946-1949. Photographs depict the ruins of the lodge following its occupation by Japanese soldiers; views of the reconstruction of the lodge, from 1946-1949; exterior views of the completed lodge; interior views of the completed lodge, including scenes of the bar, dining room, library, ladies' lounge, and lodge room; studio portraits of the construction committee members, architect, interior decorator, and contractors; and studio portraits of the lodge officers for 1948-1949. Also included in the album are brief printed texts, including: descriptions of the lodge building and its history; descriptions of the pictured rooms; a description of the process of rehabilitation and a listing of the allocation of funds for the construction of the building, interior furnishings, and decor; and an accounting audit by Price, Waterhouse & Co. of the receipts and expenditures of the construction committee during the rehabilitation process
Description:
The Elks, also known as the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, is a fraternal order founded in the United States in 1868., Text in English., Title from recto of leaf six., Place and date of creation from internal evidence., and Portraits captioned on facing pages.
Subject (Geographic):
Philippines, Manila, Philippines., and Manila (Philippines)
Americans, Social life and customs, Architects, Building, Buildings, Repair and reconstruction, Clubhouses, Contractors, Fraternal organizations, Interior decorators, Buildings, structures, etc, and History
View of the exterior of the Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, London; Ionic pillasters across front with central pediment above, coat of arms in center of pediment; wrought iron fence at street level, with gates and lamp posts in front of the two visible doors
Description:
Titled in watercolor beneath image., Unsigned; artist identified., Approximate date supplied by cataloger, based on the 1849 date of the latest printed item inserted as an extra-illustration alongside this drawing., and Bound in after page 356 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"View of the Great Court of Somerset House, on the Strand; a large statue in centre of courtyard with surrounding ballustrade; a group of elegantly dressed figures give money to a beggar in foreground, other small groups of figures in space."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 73., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 86., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1808.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st June 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
"View of gothic castle ruins, with fence in the foreground, in front of which a coach travelling at speed downhill at left, a one-horse gig uphill at right, a woman with a basket on a horse going uphill at left, followed by two other women and a child with baskets; row of buildings including a warehouse next to the castle at right, with a sailing ship on water."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Stamford Castle, Lincolnshire
Description:
Title etched in lower left corner of image., Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., Plate from: Rowlandson, T. The world in miniature. London : Published by R. Ackermann ..., 1817., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 3 of volume 14 of 14 volumes.
Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Titles etched below images., Date from item., Place of publication derived from language of text and subject., Sheet trimmed., In top margin: London ; Plate VII.e., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and Published as the Act directs
Title etched below each image., From: Walter Harrison, A new and universal history, description and survey of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and their adjacent parts, London: J. Cooke, 1775., In top margin: Engraved for Harrison's History of London., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
John Cooke
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Middlesex Hospital. and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
