Box 1

Collection of ephemera from United Order of True Sisters, Noemi No. 11 (Newton, MA) includes program books, histories of organization, lodge cards, photograph of UOTS certificate (in German), UOTS stationery, and more.

Letter discusses "carrying out the great and fundamental principles of Atalantianism" and requesting recognition of the order at Wabash from the Terre Haute branch in hope to establish a branch of the order in every "town, Academy, University and College in the Land." Written in brown ink on gray paper. Addressed to D.M. Jones Esq., Eugene, Indiana

Knights of Malta Ephemera and Correspondence, including song sheet, membership application, news clippings (facsimiles), ritual, pamphlet on Protestant Reformation, and correspondence.

Stock certificates (page of 2, uncut) of Odd Fellows' Hall Association printed by H.S. Crocker, Sacramento, CA.

Pamphlet of the Ancient, Honorable, and Accredited Order of Lumberjacks' special convention in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1940. This pamphlet includes a menu for the convention and a photograph of the order's members and the members' wives. There is also a roster of delegates, with a list of the highest ranking officers, such as Head Chopper, Head Skinner, Head Sawyer, Candidate Walking Boss, Assistant Walking Boss, Bull Cook, and Inkslinger.

Collection of ephemera from the Loyal Lewis Legion which includes three letters from Nathan B. Lewis, form of application, ritual booklet, Constitution and Laws.

Black and white photograph of 13 Odd Fellows officers wearing fraternal jewels.

Manuscript address to Relief Council No. 47, Order of United American Mechanics delivered by John F. Gaul (1815-1902) at Philadelphia. It is a good example of Nativist sentiment by a member of Order of United American Mechanics. It also references Jr. OUAM that had just been started and was struggling (this organization went on to become more popular than the parent organization). Address is delivered 15 years after the founding of the order.

Copied Songs for the Rebekah Assembly, I.O. O. F. [Independent Order of Odd Fellows], Niagara Falls, May 15-17, 1934. Song lyrics for Star Spangled Banner, Toast to Our Past Presidents, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, To Our Deputies, For the Bobbed Heads to Sing, For the Non-Bobs, Down By the Old Mill Stream, and others.