Main banking room
Chicago, historical, pictorial
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Title | Main banking room |
Description | From text: "Beyond the rooms of the savings bank … the visitor steps into the great spacious bank-room. It is a delight to the eye of even the veriest tyro in things artistic. Standing there in that magnificent doorway and viewing the splendid spectacle gleaming in the flood of light, which pours through the glass-paneled ceiling, the observer finds it difficult to realize that this is a bank, a place of commercialism. Rather would he imagine it was an art gallery, hung round with masterpieces for an exhibition, and expressing the artistic in every line and tint of its own construction and coloring. The great open space before the counters, which partially enclose three sides of the room, is floored with Vermont marble. The counters, behind which the scores of tellers and clerks are busy with their duties are of green marble, as are the bases. But the walls of the great room to a point of a few feet below the line of the ceiling are covered with inlaid panels of Pavanazzo marble .. In the space between the marble panels and the glass ceiling are sixteen semicircular oil paintings by Lawrence C. Earle. Each painting represents a striking scene or incident in the history of Chicago." |
Date | 1902 |
Type | Photograph |
File Name | chicagohistorica00chic_raw_0048.jp2 |
Source Page | http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistorica00chic#page/42/mode/2up |
Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistorica00chic |
Subject | Banking |
Coverage-Spatial | The Loop (Chicago, Ill.) |
Coverage-Temporal | 1900-1909 |
Publisher | |
Rights | No Copyright - United States |
Rights Description | Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu. |
Book Title | Chicago, historical, pictorial |
Author of the Book | Chicago National Bank |
Collection Title | Picture Chicago |
Collection | Picture Chicago |
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