Browse Items (246 total)

  • Collection: Selections from the Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives

Announcement for Aleppo Temple special train, 1915 July 5

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An announcement for the Aleppo Temple Special Train tour for members attending the Forty-first Annual Session of the Imperial Council held in Seattle, Washington in 1915. The tour included stops at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, the…

Announcement from the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia, 1796 September 7

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Announcement from the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia. Dated September 7, 1796. This statement from the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia informs Columbian Lodge, and all members of the Fraternity, that the Grand Lodge has expelled twenty-two Masons from Hiram…

Announcement from Wollaston Lodge, 1919 May

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This announcement lists the special communications of Wollaston Lodge taking place in May 1919.

Announcement of missing brother, 1865 November 27

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A letter from Henry Carlisle, W. M. to the Haswell Lodge, No. 39 announcing that Homer G. Hubbell is missing.

Anti-Masonic delegate certificate from Fall River, Massachusetts, 1832 August 20

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This notice from Jonathan Slade certifies the selection of Reverend Levi Chase (a former Mason) as a delegate to the Bristol County Anti-Masonic Party's political convention held on August 23, 1832, at Taunton, Massachusetts. Written while at Fall…

Anti-Masonic presses : a newspaper clipping from the New York Pilot, 1830 April 28

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This newspaper clipping lists "Anti-Masonic Presses in the several States herein mentioned, with the places at which they are established." The states included are New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey,…

Application signed by Agent Adam M. Ross, 1910

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A blank membership application for the Masonic Casualty Company of Boston, Massachusetts. Signed by Adam M. Ross, an agent for the company.

Appointment letter from the Gran Logia to DeWitt C. Dawkins, 1886 September 25

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An appointment letter from the Gran Logia to DeWitt C. Dawkins. Dated September 25, 1886. In this letter, the Gran Logia appoints DeWitt C. Dawkins as its Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of Florida.

Appointment of Micah Chapman as Captain of the Sixth Company of Barnstable county, 1781 July 1

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Document, dated July 1, 1781, appointing Micah Chapman as "Captain of the Sixth Company in the first Regiment of Militia in the County of Barnstable whereof Enoch Hallet, Esqr is Colonel."

Signed by John Hancock in his capacity as Governor and…

Attested copy of records of a Convention of Delegates to form the Grand Lodge of Maine, 1819 October

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An official copy of the records of the Convention of Delegates held at Masons’ Hall in Portland, Maine, regarding the formation of the Grand Lodge of Maine. This copy is attested by the convention’s secretary, John P. Boyd, and records the events of…