Browse Items (293 total)

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

Agents Wanted for Scarlet Book of Free Masonry

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Broadside soliciting agents to sell book entitled Scarlet Book of Free Masonry. Contains endorsements from Daniel Sickels, 33°, and John W. Simons, 33°, and others. The Scarlet Book of Free Masonry was first published by Redding & Co. in 1879. This…

Aleppo Temple program, 1915 May 5

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Aleppo Temple meeting summons for May 5, 1915, listing meeting times, officer and member names, and committee assignments.

An excellent New Free Mason Song; composed and set to Music by a Brother, to be sung at the Celebration of the Feast of St. John the Baptist

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Two songs. [First song]; first line: Begin, Brother Masons, a Free Mason strain Jockey to the Fair; first line: 'Twas in the morn of sweet May-DayImprint at last line of second column: "Sold near Liberty-Pole, 1795." Likely printed at Boston by…

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.

Antedeluvian Herald collection, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1827

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A handwritten manuscript, written by members of the Boston Social Union, and read at their weekly meetings of the society.

Antedeluvian Herald collection, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1827 August 16

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A handwritten manuscript, written by members of the Boston Social Union, and read at their weekly meetings of the society.

Antedeluvian Herald collection, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1827

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A handwritten manuscript, written by members of the Boston Social Union, and read at their weekly meetings of the society.