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Fraternal organizations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Base form

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Alexander Family fraternal collection, 1856-1966

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: A2014-009
Dates: 1856 - 1966

Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Skowhegan, Maine, records, 1870-1973

 Collection
Identifier: A2017-015
Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence, financial material, membership and benefit applications, certificates, reports, and more of several Odd Fellow lodges, encampments and its ladies auxiliary, and rebekah lodges. The majority of the collection is from Carrabassett Lodge, No. 34

Dates: 1870-1973

Jephtha Lodge, No. 11, records, 1892-1982

 Collection
Identifier: A2017-054
Content Description

The records of Jephtha Lodge, No. 11, span the years 1892-1982, with the bulk of material dating from 1909 to 1982. The collection features approximately 280 items produced and collected by Jephtha Lodge and includes minutes of meetings, membership applications, correspondence, receipts, and financial records. The collection is arranged by document type.

Dates: 1892-1982

John A. Waterhouse Masonic and fraternal collection, 1879-2010

 Collection
Identifier: A2011-037
Scope and Contents

Includes postcards, brochures, regalia catalogs, certificates, member directories, programs, and summons for Masonic and fraternal organizations, as well as postcards and first day covers for the Eastern States Exposition (also known as The Big E).

Dates: 1879-2010

King Solomon's Lodge, No. 197, records, 1853-1956

 Collection
Identifier: A2019-063
Dates: 1853-1956

Letter from N. H. Hubbard to his brothers and sisters, 1849

 Item
Identifier: A2009-078-001
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by N. H. Hubbard to his brothers and sisters, four pages. Hubbard describes a Masonic funeral that he witnessed in Virginia, close to the North Carolina border. He explains that the Masons at the funeral "all stood in a ring again, and clapped their hands first over their heads, and then across the breast, then down at the side, repeating it 3 times." This "salute" is known as the public "grand honors." Hubbard also wrote that one Mason from each lodge threw a spade...
Dates: 1849

Letter from the McIntosh Battery and Optical Co., 1890 November 1

 Item
Identifier: A1989-028-007
Scope and Contents

Typescript letter concerning Magic Lanterns and its use with the Masons and the Odd Fellows

Dates: 1890 November 1

Letter to Elizabeth B. Church from James H. Kearns, 1847 July 12

 Item
Identifier: A2023-048-001
Content Description

Kearns wrote to Church about a portrait of her recently deceased husband that they have and offers it to the widow with the lodge's sympathies for the death of her husband, a fellow member. The letter has an Odd Fellow's seal affixed to it.

Dates: 1847 July 12