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[Elks Home, Douglas Arizona]

Postcard of the Douglas Elks Lodge located in Douglas Arizona. Elks Lodge # No. 955 is located at 650 E 10th St., Douglas, AZ 85607. According to the February 25, 2016 Douglas Dispatch; the lodge was established in 1902. However the construction of this building did not begin until February 20, 1916 and was then subsequently completed later that year in August of 1916. The original cost of the building was less than $20,000. The Elks are an American fraternal order founded in 1868. Part o… more

Date: 1910/1920

Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921

Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Postcard of Elk's Club in Asheville, North Carolina]

Postcard of an illustration of a four-story, red brick building with a wrap-around balcony on the left side of the second floor and large, floor-to-ceiling windows on the left side of the first floor. The building has been built on the corner of an intersection of two streets, one of which (on the right) travels down a gradual slope. An elk-head has been mounted to the top of the left side of the building and an American flag flies above it. Printed text in the top right corner of the postcard … more

Date: 19uu

Partner: Howard Payne University Library

[Elks Club in Ft. Worth, Texas]

Postcard image of the Elks Club lodge in Fort Worth, Texas. The lodge is two stories built in a Spanish style with clay roofing tiles, rounded windows and iron work around the archways on the first floor. Trees are visible around the exterior of the lodge near the steps leading up to the entrance. Handwritten on the text address Miss. Sadie Costa of Roswell, New Mexico.

Date: 1912

Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis