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Clandestine Masonry

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Found in 98 Collections and/or Records:

Indiana Clandestinism, 1950

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to clandestine Masonic bodies in Indiana and Michigan.

Dates: 1950
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 (F) Clandestine Masonry Files

Installation ceremony script for Grand Lodge of Perfection, Cerneau, 1898

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Identifier: A1982-018
Dates: 1898
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Insurance certificate issued to Addie B. Bell by the National Charity Department of Electa Chapter, No. 10, 1949 April 1

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1998-085-001
Scope and Contents

National Grand Orient insurance certificate issued for Addie B. Bell and signed by William Fitzpatrick, M. P. Sovereign Grand Commander. The certificate was issued by the National Charity Department, Electa Chapter No. 10, Alliance, Ohio on April 1, 1949. The beneficiaries were her two children.

Dates: 1949 April 1
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Johnson - Spurious Supreme Council, 1943-1945

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Correspondence relating to "United Supreme Council of Washington, D.C.", which, per George W. Crawford, is not recognized as legitimate by the Northern Supreme Council (Prince Hall).

Dates: 1943-1945
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 (F) Clandestine Masonry Files

Knight of Rose Croix certificate issued to Pierre Benjamain Baullier by les Amis Indivisibles of the Orient of Paris, 1806

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Identifier: A1982-010a-001
Scope and Contents

Knight of Rose Croix Masonic certificate given to Pierre Benjamain Baullier by les Amis Indivisibles of the Orient of Paris. Symbols on the certificate include a cross with a rose and a broken column.

Dates: 1806
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Knights Rose Croix Chapter in Boston Massachusetts charter, 1883

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2016-054
Dates: 1883
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Letter from M. W. Bayliss, 1897

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Identifier: A1994-089
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Printed letter criticizing both the Northern and Southern Jurisdictions as not true Scottish Rite organizations.

Dates: 1897
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Letters between Harvey Newton Brown from Grand Master Charles R. Bonnemort of the Grand Lodge of France, 1965

 Collection — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2013-045-001
Scope and Contents Correspondence includes a typescript letter to Harvey Newton Brown from Grand Master Charles R. Bonnefort. Letter concerns Brown's affiliation with Anglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 343, in Texas which was chartered by the Grande Loge de France. G. M. Bonnemort explained that this membership constitutes affiliation with a clandestine lodge and is a violation of his obligation to Masons in Rhode Island (Brown is also a member of Berlin Lodge No. 46 of Rhode Island). Also includes the response of Harvey...
Dates: 1965
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Mark Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Sobieski Lodge, No. 134, 1921 June 27

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2000-025-003
Scope and Contents A clandestine Mark Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's case is fully detailed in...
Dates: 1921 June 27
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Master Mason certificate issued to John Kulczycki by Sobieski Lodge, No. 134, 1921 June 27

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2000-025-002
Scope and Contents A clandestine Master Mason certificate issued by Lodge Sobieski, No. 134 (Elizabeth, New Jersey), to John Kulczycki and dated 1921. Lodge Sobieski, No. 134, was a Masonic body within Matthew McBlaine Thomson's International Masonic Federation, a later incarnation of Thomson's American Masonic Federation, a clandestine Masonic organization whose leaders were convicted at Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 5, 1922, on ten counts of mail fraud. Thomson's International Masonic Federation also used the...
Dates: 1921 June 27
Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

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