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African American Fraternal History Prince Hall Freemasonry Banquet Photograph Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No 48 Philadelphia 1949

1949ref. 221401949. Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 annual banquet photograph documenting African American fraternal life and community leadership in Philadelphia during the late 1940s. The image records members and guests of a lodge affiliated with Prince Hall Freemasonry a network of lodges founded in the eighteenth century to provide African American men with access to fraternal institutions from which they had been excluded by white Masonic bodies. By the mid twentieth century Prince Hall lodges functioned as major centers of civic organization mutual aid and social leadership within Black communities. The photograph captures a large formal banquet held in 1949 illustrating how Masonic gatherings served as social events that reinforced institutional identity and community solidarity during the decades preceding the modern civil rights movement. Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 Annual Banquet. Philadelphia: Reynolds Hall May 21 1949. Large panoramic black and white photograph credited to the photographer West Hooper. The image shows more than one hundred African American men and women seated at long banquet tables arranged across a large hall decorated with hanging streamers. Attendees appear in formal evening dress including tuxedos corsages and gowns suggesting the ceremonial and social importance of the event. A musical ensemble identified by a sign reading "JS" performs on a raised platform at the rear of the hall while guests converse and dine. The photograph records both lodge members and community participants gathered for the annual banquet of Tuscan Morning Star Lodge No. 48 providing a visual record of fraternal ceremony and social life within Philadelphia's African American community. Prince Hall Freemasonry has long played a significant role in African American civic organization providing networks of leadership philanthropy and social support in communities where Black citizens faced exclusion from many professional and social institutions. Lodge events such as banquets and public gatherings functioned as spaces for community organization and mutual aid throughout the twentieth century. The photograph measures approximately 10 × 20 inches and is displayed in a wooden gilt frame behind glass measuring approximately 30 × 18 inches. Minor handling wear visible with light surface marks to the frame and glass consistent with age. Overall condition very good. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · Estados UnidosUS$ 1.200,00≈ € 1.070,00

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Almanach royal année MDCCLXXIII

1773ref. 4232Paris: Le Breton 1773. 8vo 192 x 120 mm. 566 pages. 5 leaves are cancels as called for in the Avis au relieur on the last page the 5 cancels were originally the last 5 leaves of the final quire. Marginal tear to pp. 399-400 not affecting text. Contemporary French gold-tooled morocco covers tooled with a triple rule frame enclosing a wide dentelle border incorporating emblems of the Freemasons compasses & squares stars shooting stars and a pair of shaking hands fleurs-de-lis at corners at center a large double-ruled Masonic triangle whose band is filled with pointillé dots inner triangle with a shooting star at each corner and the initial P at center; spine in six gold-tooled compartments with title and date in two compartments large and small fleurs-de-lis in the others gilt edges blue endpapers; in fine condition small light dark spot to upper cover a couple of other insignificant small marks. 20th-century leather-backed cloth folding case. Provenance: small booklabel inside folding box “Bibliophilia / AG / Bern” with an image of a binding press. A fine Masonic binding on the Almanach royal for 1773. This was an important year for the Freemasons in France. In 1773 they reorganized their disparate and in the past often schismatic loges into one hierarchically organized Grand Orient de France whose grand master was none other than Louis-Philippe d’Orléans later known as Philippe-Egalité for his support of radical reform of the French monarchical system. Masonic lodges open to bourgeois and artisans as well as aristocrats were in many parts of France a venue for new social connections and the philosophical opening toward new ideas and they were to take an active part in the elections to the Estates General in 1789. Nevertheless as the Revolution intensified the dangers of being associated with an exclusive secretive and originally aristocratic club were not lost on Louis-Philippe who renounced his position in the winter of 1793; this had little effect on his terrible fate he was guillotined less than 9 months later. Other than Le Droit humain an international order of Freemasonry that was founded in the 1880s most Masonic lodges still exclude women and atheists. The dentelle of this well-preserved binding is built up from individual tools unlike the Dubuisson bindings that decorate so many Almanachs royaux. The initial P. at the center of each cover may represent a chapter name. Le Breton unknown books

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · Estados UnidosUS$ 4.800,00≈ € 4.279,98

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