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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
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
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
TitleMain banking room
DescriptionFrom 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."
Date1902  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagohistorica00chic_raw_0048.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistorica00chic#page/42/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistorica00chic
SubjectBanking  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1900-1909  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages 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 TitleChicago, historical, pictorial  
Author of the BookChicago National Bank  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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