Thanksgiving Day

Scope and Contents 41 proclamations by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the years 1902 and 1938-1969 (with exception of 1941, 1943, 1948-1951, 1955-1957, 1961, 1965, 1967-1968). The 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation is accompanied with an envelope addressed to the Minister of Methodist Episcopal Church, in Woods Hole, Mass. with return address of Woodward Booth, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Secretary's Department, postmarked 1902. The majority are Thanksgiving Proclamations. Other proclamations celebrate...

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Collection includes by-laws, correspondence, financial reports, contracts, membership papers, and receipts.

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Junior Order United American Mechanics dance program that has their emblem on the front of the program with the square and compass surrounding an arm with a hammer and their motto "Virtue, Liberty, and Patriotism" in a shield. Inside the program is a title page indicating that this is the "Thanksgiving Concert and Ball given by Franklin Pierce Council, No.25, O.U.A.M." The next two pages give the order of dances for the evening

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Consists of letters from John "Archie" Frasher, who lived in Chicago, and from his father and mother, John and Susan Frasher, of Kennebunk Port, Maine. The Maine Frashers also had a daughter, Sarah Fisher, who was John E., James' and Fred. B.'s mother.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Ralph B. Duncan postcard collection consists of postcards with a Masonic connection, either a building used for Masonic purposes, a person connected to Freemasonry, or a subject concerning Freemasonry. Mostly made during 1907-1940s, there are some that are both earlier and later, which can be determined by changes in postcard conventions. Included are portraits, views of buildings, cartoons, among other subjects. Most of the postcards of buildings are in the United States, with some from...