Shriners International

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Collection includes a catalog for Masonic publications, 4 pamphlets regarding the George Washington National Monument, a history of the Pleiades Lodge, and an envelope containing receipts and notices to appear, and the obituary roll issued to Ringhoff, as well as a letter from Elmhurst Lodge, No. 941, to Reva Lizzadro. The bulk of the collection dates from 1945-1959.

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The newsletters are a compilation of recent newspaper coverage of the Shrine and Shriners Hospitals. These items were placed in Florida as it is where the headquarters are of Shriners International.

Scope and Contents Henry S. Kuhn's World War I photograph album with materials dating from 1917-1977 [bulk 1917-1919]. The album was accompanied by 2 copies of the Park Ridge [Illinois] Herald, September 15, 1944, which featured Kuhn as "This Week's Personality". The original article was photocopied and is housed with scrapbook. Photo album contains 165 black and white photographs and photo postcards [one in color], most showing life aboard a ship during World War I. Shipboard photos include images of boxing...

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Ralston was elected honorary member of York Rite shrine. Certificate notes shrine location in Desert of Arkansas, Oasis of Pine Bluff. It is decorated with printed color image including desert, pyramids and camel. Attached is letter of acknowledgment from Ralston.

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Ralston elected honorary member of York Rite shrine. Certificate notes shrine location in Oasis of Columbus. Certificate is decorated with printed color image including palm trees, camels, people and pyramids, Aladdin Temple seal. Attached letter from Illustrious Potentate of Temple notifying of honorary membership for achievement for Cincinnati Burns Institute of Shriners Hospitals.

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Certificate issued to Stanley Fielding Maxwell, in honor of becoming an honorary member of the shrine Al Koran in Clevland Ohio ("Oasis of Clevland, Desert of Ohio") which reads "Hath found favor in our sight and lodgement in our hearts."