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Anti-Masonic movements

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Make Room for the People broadside, 1835 October 20

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Identifier: A1990-010-004
Scope and Contents Broadside entitled "Make Room for the People! Free Bridge Line!" promoting the Antimasonic Republican ticket for the Massachusetts state election to be held on November 9, 1835.Antimasonic Republican Ticket includes Edward Everett for governor and William Foster for lieutenant governor. Also lists the following candidates on the Antimasonic Republican ticket, running for Senate and Council seats for Middlesex County: William Parmenter, Stephen Pope, Leonard M. Parker, Reuben...
Dates: 1835 October 20

Notice Sending Delegate to a Local Anti-Masonic Convention, 1832 August 20

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Identifier: A1995-017-001
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This notice from Jonathan Slade (Secretary, Troy [Fall River], MA) certifies the selection of Reverend Levi Chase (a former Mason) as a delegate to the Bristol County Anti-Masonic Party's political convention held on August 23, 1832, at Taunton, Massachusetts. Written while at Fall River, Massachusetts, and dated August 20, 1832.

Dates: 1832 August 20

Opposed to Secret Societies: Anti-masonic broadside issued by the National Christian Association, 1880

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Identifier: A2002-038-001
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Broadside, Twelfth National Convention National Christian Association: "Opposed to Secret Societies." Illustrated lectures on Masonry. Broadside proclaims "Freemasonry is a sworn conspiracy against the Christian religion degrading in its pagan ceremonies and a positive insult to common sense." Verso contains anti-Masonic quotations by John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, William H. Seward, Charles Sumner, and others.

Dates: 1880

Poem by Joseph Green, Festival of St. John broadside, 1739

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Identifier: A1980-001-001
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A satirical and anti-Masonic account of the celebration of the Festival of Saint John the Baptist held by Freemasons in Boston. Written by Joseph Green, a poet, merchant, and British Loyalist, based on an account published in the July 2, 1739 edition of the Boston Gazette

Dates: 1739

Southern, SC (1), 1928-1929

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The following topics are mentioned: John H. Cowles, Romania, Richard Walter John Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore, Mexico, Italy, anti-masonic sentiment, Mussolini, Cerneau bodies, South America

Dates: 1928-1929

T, 1924-1926

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The following topics are mentioned: Walter T. Taggert, Frederick C. Thayer, anti-masonic sentiment, Italy

Dates: 1924-1926

Two newspaper clipping photocopies and a booklet on the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, 1923-1988

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Identifier: A2023-005-001
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The constructed booklet has articles from the Christian Cynosure, an anti-masonic and fraternal newspaper, and the funeral service ritual of the Elks

Dates: 1923-1988

Unsigned letter from Royal Woodward to his brother, circa 1828

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Identifier: A1993-045-001
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An unsigned and undated letter attributed to Royal Woodward of Ashford, Connecticut. In this letter to his brother, Woodward discusses the health and well-being of his family and friends and gives his opinions on Freemasonry.

Dates: circa 1828