Physical extent undetermined. The Elks National Memorial and Headquarters archives includes correspondence, contracts and accounts, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, publications, realia, and other materials documenting the history of the Elks national organization and the history of the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters building in Chicago. The collection includes considerable documentation of the mural sculptural decoration of the building, including photographs of the artists, the artworks, and the interior spaces with artwork installed; clippings, photographs, and correspondence by and relating to the artists; accounts and contracts; a bound volume of minutes and reports of the Elks National Memorial Headquarters Commission relating to the construction of the building, including the commissions for the decorative artworks, transcripts of descriptions of the artworks, and transcripts of correspondence with the artists. In addition, the collection includes engraved plates of the murals for publication, as well as a small set of concept drawings by Adolph Weinman for the rotunda’s exterior frieze.