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Grand celebration of Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843. This broadside and poem commemorates the Daniel Webster's June 17th oration at the newly-erected Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

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Amateur minstrels show handbill. Dated February 25, 1907. This small handbill publicizes an amateur minstrels show held for the "benefit of the Colored Odd Fellows." Wilbur Miles, a world-renowned entertainer of mixed race descent, headlined the…

Charley […] experiences or a visit to the grand opera, London, 1872. Dated about 1872. These pen and ink drawings by, most likely, a Cincinnati, Ohio, artist depicts a Cincinnatian’s humorous visit to the Grand Opera in London.

Connecticut Freemasons' oath of fealty to the Supreme Council. Dated July 28, 1864. In this document, a group of Freemasons from Connecticut swears allegiance to the Supreme Council, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction.

List of New York Freemasons who took the Ineffable Degrees. Dated between 1826 and 1830. This document lists a group of New York State Freemasons who received the Ineffable Degrees (4th through 14th degrees) during the years 1820 through 1826.

Portable bandstand picturegram. Dated June 2, 1947. This picturegram depicts the Al Koran Temple Little Symphony Band of Cleveland, Ohio, as it marched in a fifteen thousand strong Shriners’ parade in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The parade took place…

Syria Temple Patrol Shriners bang gun. Dated 1950s. A cardboard toy bang gun created for the Syria Temple Shriners of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Imprint reads, "Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. Made In U.S.A."

Our company in the Sunday school army petition. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This document from a Sunday school petitions readers to contribute money to provide Union soldiers with religious literature. During the Civil War, Sunday schools and the…

You are respectfully invited to accompany the Peace Makers on an excursion to a quiet retreat on a salt marsh, near the Atlantic. Dated 1863. This satirical invitation to a fictitious political gathering invites Peace Democrats or “Copperheads” to a…

The duellists [sic], or the death of Cilley. Dated about 1838. This poem memorializes the death of United States Congressman Jonathan Cilley from Maine, who died in a duel with another Congressman, William J. Graves from Kentucky.