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FR 007. Fraternal certificates

 Record Group
Identifier: FR 007

Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Certificate issued to B. Wood by the Sons of Temperance, 1849 August 3

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1997-016-001
Dates: 1849 August 3

Traveling certificate issued to Chris Herr by Warren Council, No. 4, 1890

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1997-016-005

Membership certificate issued by the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati to Henry Newman, 1849 July 5

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1997-016-008
Scope and Contents

Membership certificate issued to Henry Newman of Roxbury, 1849 by Massachusetts Society of Cincinnati. Red seal of Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati in the middle of bottom half of certificate. Symbols include eagle, knight holding flag, and angel announcing liberty of United States in 1776.

Dates: 1849 July 5

Blank Improved Order of Red Men membership certificate, 1912

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1997-016-017
Scope and Contents

Blank certificate with images of Tecumseh, Tamany, and George Washington. This certificate contains images that generally romanticize and appropriate non-white cultural heritage by using stereotypes and/or caricatures.

Dates: 1912

Membership certificate issued to M. G. Handy by M. & M Lodge, No. 62, 1876

 Item
Identifier: A1997-016-020
Scope and Contents

The certificate contains full-color images include all-seeing eye, hand with heart, three link chain and many others.

Dates: 1876

Blank certificate issued by the Watertown Lodge, No. 496, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 1902

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A1997-023
Scope and Contents

Chromolithograph certificate issued by the Watertown Lodge, No. 496, of New York (blank, no member has signed it). With large elk's head in the upper middle and various vignettes surrounding the printed text of the certificate documenting some of the activities of Elks such as taking care of orphan children, visiting the sick, and toasting at a banquet.

Dates: 1902