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Deputy Grand Chief Templar certificate issued to Cyrus W. Kelley, 1892

Item

Identifier: A2006-006-012

Scope and Contents

Certificates for Deputy Grand Chief Templar issued to Cyrus W. Kelley from Charham Light Lodge, No. 291; Haven Lodge, No. 135; and Bay View Lodge, No. 252. The certificate lists the duties of the DGCT and are signed by James Bowen of Massachusetts.

Dates: 1892

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library / Masonic and fraternal collection, 1878-1925 / Independent Order of Good Templars

Des Voigne Block, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Columbus Hall, Odell, Illinois, postcard, 1908 August 20

Item — Box 2

Identifier: A1993-034-003

Scope and Contents

Real photo postcard of the building used by the Odd Fellows and Knights of Columbus in Odell, Illinois, mailed to James Young of Milbank, South Dakota by his sister.

Dates: 1908 August 20

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Descriptive Price List of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, No. 2, circa 1880

Item

Identifier: A1980-037-005

Scope and Contents

This catalog contains regalia, costumes, and paraphernalia for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Dates: circa 1880

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Detroit Elks Convention of 1910 postcard with plastic elk, circa 1910

Item — Box 1

Identifier: A1994-005-002

Scope and Contents

Postcard of brown plastic raised elks head on paperstock with a gold border. The bottom of the card reads "Detroit July 1910" also in a gold border.

Dates: circa 1910

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Detroit Sheet Metal and Brass Works regalia catalogs, 1899

Collection

Identifier: A1983-025-001

Scope and Contents

The Detroit Sheet Metal and Brass Works Company, later the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, catered mainly for the need of fraternal organization for realistic props for ritual work and regalia. The catalog offered items such as helmets, shields, spears (hollow and not hollow), pole tops (such as crosses, eagles, etc.), crowns, shackles, and more.

Dates: 1899

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Diary of Florence M. Flieler, 1925-1926

Item — Box 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: A2010-009-001

Scope and Contents Manuscript diary of Mrs. Florence M. Flieler, Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters. The diary describes Mrs. Flieler's first five months in office after her installation as Grand Chief of the Pythian Sisters in 1925. It includes descriptions of visits with other Pythian Sisters in various towns in California, gifts received, and personal accounts of degrees given, initiating candidates, socializing, chicken dinners, impressions of hosting Pythian Sisters and Brothers, description of degree...

Dates: 1925-1926

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Diary of Rosa Belle Buck Morton, 1946-1950

Item — Box 5, Folder: 1

Identifier: A2010-008-001

Scope and Contents

This manuscript five-year diary of Rosa Belle Buck Morton records her daily account of life in the post-World War II years. She wrote about the daily housework, such as washing, ironing, cleaning, details about the weather, descriptions of berrying, canning, pickling, gardening, and making the house comfortable for Mr. Morton. Morton also described her active participation in the Order of Eastern Star and the Grange (Patrons of Husbandry).

Dates: 1946-1950

Found in: Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library