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Chattanooga Communication Souvenir

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Prince Hall Temple Souvenir Pin, 1914. Chattanooga Button & Badge Manufacturing Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gift of Valley of Columbus, Ohio, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, 99.013.29. On August 2...

Posted at 08:00 AM in Abraham Lincoln, African American Fraternal Groups, African Americans, American Civil War, American Freemasonry, American History - 19th Century, American History - 20th Century, Badge, Civil War, Conservation, Emancipation, Freemasonry, Freemasonry and the Civil War, Juneteenth, Masonic and fraternal history, Posts by Stacey Fraser, Prince Hall Freemasonry, Tennessee, The Masonic Hall of Fame: Extraordinary Freemasons in American History | | Comments (0)

"Cartomania" and Sitting for a Carte-de-Visite Portrait

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Woman and Man Wearing Fraternal Regalia, 1860-1863. Henry R. Cornell (1836-1906). Ligonier, Indiana. Gift in Memory of Jacques Noel Jacobsen, 2008.038.59. The Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library holds over two hundred cartes-de-visit...

Posted at 01:31 PM in Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Cabinet Card, Calling Cards, carte-de-visite, Charles Dickens, Civil War, Photography, Posts by Alyssa Shirley Morein | | Comments (4)

Moses Dickson and the Order of Twelve

Pictured here is Moses Dickson, from the frontispiece illustration of the 1879 book A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle. In 1872, the Rev. Moses Dickson founded the International Order of Twelve of Knights a...

Posted at 09:00 AM in African American Fraternal Groups, Fraternal groups (not Masonic), International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor , Moses Dickson, Posts by Jeff Croteau, Prince Hall Freemasonry, Relief organizations | | Comments (11)