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Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Lee uses elements of religious architecture, such as the tower, central niche with a statue, the large arched opening and the rows of window along the side of the building, as though to bring as much light into the building as possible, although exactly the opposite was true.
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Construction photos show the odd open steel frame along the top of the building to give it increased strength (70104), the scaffolding along the Broadway elevation (70105), a view down into the interior showing the steel framing (70106), and the process of applying the finish decoration on the balcony interior (70107).
Date:: 1926-27
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Dwyer Studio
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This construction photo shows the basement and the mass of wood framing used to make the forms for the poured concrete. The large derrick in the background was used to lift the materials and equipment up as the building rose.
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Shouler, Mayson W.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This abstract floral and leaf design executed in cast stone was probably part of a screen over a ventilation or sound duct at the side of the proscenium arch.
Date:: 1928-30
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Shouler, Mayson W.
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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