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Greeting card from Lynn Assembly, No. 6, Order of the Rainbow for Girls, Swampscott, Massachusetts. Inside the card is a tiny calendar for the year 1956. Image on the front of card is rainbow attached to pot of gold

6 brochures about the Iowa Masonic Library with various objects in the Library described and pictured including Shrine Case, Eastern Star case, and an Autograph case, and Masonic Medals.

The certificate has an explanation of Masonic Home and School with a congratulations on contribution

Typescript entitled "The Standards of the Rite: The Mission of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Human Society" by John Pica, Sovereign Grand Commander of Italy, 33°

Petition to a Masonic lodge at Stockbridge dated June 25, 1777. In this letter, a group of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Freemasons request admission to the Masonic lodge located at Stockbridge. The unnamed lodge was presumably Berkshire Lodge, chartered March 8, 1777 and in existence until 1796.

Manuscript letter addressed to the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire requesting a dispensation for opening a military lodge by members of the 14th Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry. Letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel T.A. Barker and others.

Note on back of letter, dated October 20, 1862, written by Charles H. Bell, Grand Master of Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, granting the petition and naming the lodge "Comrades' Lodge, No. 4, of Army Lodges."

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.

This circular, issued by the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, announces the Masons elected for office at a Communication of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York on June 1, 1825. Signed by the Grand Secretary for New York, Ebenezer Wadsworth.