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Grand Lodge - Social Security, 1937-1939

File — Box 100, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents

Correspondence to and from members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, relating to the Social Security Act which required fraternal organizations to pay taxes.

Dates: 1937-1939

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Records of Melvin M. Johnson, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States, 1915-1979 / Subject Files (G) Fraternal Relations

Invitation to 250th Anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, 1983

Item — Box 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: A2001-089-001

Scope and Contents Invitation to 250th Anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. The cover has a border with Masonic symbols and resembles an 18th-century certificate by Paul Revere. There is an oval portrait of Henry Price in the center. Printed below is "Right Worshipful Henry Price / Founder of our Grand Lodge, 1733." A separate printed page inside gives information about the cover art. Printed inside the invitation is "The / Most Worshipful Grand Lodge / of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons / of...

Dates: 1983

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Invitation to John Lowell's Masonic funeral, 1793 June 3

Item — Box 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: A1981-003-001

Content Description

This funeral notice from Grand Master John Cutler, Esq., invites Massachusetts Masons to attend the Masonic funeral of Deputy Grand Master John Lowell, which was held at the Concert Hall located at Hanover Street and Queen Street. The notice is dated June 3, 1793, and printed under Cutler’s name is the name of Grand Secretary Samuel Colesworthy.

Dates: 1793 June 3

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Laying the Corner Stone of the First Congregational Church, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, 1922 May 13

Item

Identifier: A2009-066-006

Scope and Contents Laying the Corner Stone of the First Congregational Church, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Sepia-toned, cirkut camera photograph scene of men, women, and chidren gathered outside to witness the cornerstone laying. Many buildings in background. Crane in foreground holding large stone. Young boys on roof of shed on right. Handwritten on bottom "Laying the Corner Stone of the First Congregational Church, Tewksbury, Mass., May 13th 1922. By M. Wor. Arthur D. Prince, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of...

Dates: 1922 May 13

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / John A. Goodwin collection of George H. Russell panoramic photographs, 1919-1930

Lester M. Bacon scrapbook, District Deputy Grand Master, 1932-1933

Item

Identifier: A2006-059

Dates: 1932 - 1933

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Letter concerning petition for a dispensation for a Masonic Lodge, 1885

Item — Box 202

Identifier: GL2004-0011

Scope and Contents

Manuscript letter from Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, declining the petition for a dispensation for a Masonic lodge in Elmina, West Africa. This area of Africa was under English jurisdiction at this time and there were English Masonic lodges

Dates: 1885

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts collection, 1689-1956