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Order of exercises at the installation of the officers of Columbian Lodge, 1849 December 21
Order of exercises at the installation of the officers of Columbian Lodge. Dated December 21, 1849. This document provides the order of exercises for the public installation of Columbian Lodge's officers. Includes lyrics for four pieces of music from…
Manuscript certificate issued by Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, to Obediah Rich, 1844 February 20
Manuscript certificate issued by Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, to Obediah Rich. Dated February 20, 1844. This manuscript document certifies that Obediah Rich is a Scarlet Member of Bethesda Lodge, No. 30, and is in good standing. The Scarlet degree or…
City of Boston memorial services program in honor of Wendell Phillips, 1884 April 18
City of Boston memorial services program in honor of Wendell Phillips. Dated April 18, 1884. This program describes the order of exercises for the memorial services for Boston orator and attorney Wendell Phillips, an American abolitionist and…
Letter from Grand Master William Parkman to Alonzo Hall Quint, 1864 November 17
Letter from Grand Master William Parkman to Alonzo Hall Quint. Dated November 17, 1864. In this letter, Grand Master William Parkman of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts provides Freemason Alonzo Hall Quint with information regarding Quint's proposed…
Letter from Moses Williams to Alonzo Hall Quint, 1862 August 27
Letter from Moses Williams to Alonzo Hall Quint. Dated August 27, 1862. In this letter, Williams thanks Quint, a Chaplain in the Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, for sending Williams a lock of his deceased son's hair. First Lieutenant…
Petition to form a Rose Croix chapter and consistory in Boston, 1845 June 25
Petition to form a Rose Croix chapter and consistory in Boston. Dated June 25, 1845. This petition from a group of Boston Freemasons, but written by Sovereign Grand Commander John James Joseph Gourgas, asks for the Supreme Council's authority to form…
Handwritten statement on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, 1865 May 17
Handwritten statement on the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Dated May 17, 1865. This handwritten preamble and resolution by Benjamin Dean of the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, expresses the Supreme Council’s sympathy…
The midnight knell : a poem, 1881 September 20
The Midnight Knell, a poem. Dated September 20, 1881. This poem by Henry C. Dane memorializes the death of President James A. Garfield. Imprint at bottom of the broadside reads, "Published by N. W. Appleton, 7 School Street."
A song, composed by the British soldiers, after the fight at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, between 1875 and 1880
A song, composed by the British soldiers, after the fight at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Dated between 1875 and 1880. This song in twelve stanzas was written by an unknown British author and commemorates the Battle of Bunker Hill and the British…
Webster Festival : ode to commemorate the civic festival given to the Hon. Daniel Webster : at Faneuil Hall, July 24, 1838, 1838
Webster Festival. Ode to commemorate the civic festival given to the Hon. Daniel Webster at Faneuil Hall, July 24, 1838. Dated 1838. This lyrical poem in twenty-two stanzas commemorates a dinner given at Faneuil Hall in honor of United States Senator…
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Red Room of Rocky Mountain Consistory, Denver, Colorado
A colored photo postcard depicting the Red Room of the Rocky Mountain Consistory building in Denver, Colorado. Publication date 1945. The caption on…