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1969réf. 214941969. African American Fraternal Organizations Prince Hall Freemasonry Archive documenting Prince Hall Freemasonry and African American fraternal life from the 1940s through the 1990s illustrating the role of Black Masonic organizations as enduring centers of fellowship leadership mutual support and community organization. Spanning approximately five decades and including material from Pennsylvania Louisiana and Illinois the collection traces Prince Hall activities from formal lodge banquets and Grand Lodge meetings to membership records and the funerary traditions surrounding members of the broader Masonic community. Archive of 7 pieces including three approximately 8.5 x 11 inch press photographs dating from the 1940s through the 1960s a 1969 Golden Star Lodge No. 143 yearbook two 1993 funeral programs and a birthday roster containing members' names and contact information. Together the material provides a cross-section of the institutional and social life sustained by African American fraternal organizations during the mid- and late twentieth century. A 1946 photograph records a large gathering of Pittsburgh's Golden Shield Lodge No. 69. Black lodge members and their female guests fill two long banquet tables beneath a prominent "Golden Shield Lodge No. 69" banner. The image provides a striking visual record of the lodge as a social institution extending beyond formal Masonic ritual into the wider community of members spouses families and guests. A 1969 photograph taken at the annual workshop of the M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana in New Orleans shows three African American Masons in suits conferring during the proceedings. They are identified on the verso as W.S. Finister Jr. Rufus Mayfield and Richard Turnley. The photograph documents the administrative and leadership structure of Prince Hall Masonry and the organized exchange between members that helped sustain its network of local lodges. Also included is the 1969 yearbook of Golden Star Lodge No. 143 of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Its cover bears the Masonic square and compass and records the lodge's meeting place at 143 Orr Street in Pittsburgh. The volume contains membership information meeting schedules guiding principles and tributes to past Worshipful Masters and other members documenting the importance placed upon institutional continuity leadership and collective memory within Black Freemasonry. Two funeral programs from 1993 illustrate the close relationship between African American fraternal religious and community life. A "Home Going Service" for Sister Mattie White was held at Central Baptist Church in Pittsburgh under the direction of Dr. Isaac Green and includes a portrait of White dressed in white. Her identification as "Sister" may indicate participation in a Masonic-affiliated women's organization although a specific affiliation cannot be established from the program alone. A "Service of Triumph" for John Columbus Coger held at New Hope Temple Baptist Church in Philadelphia similarly preserves the dignified commemorative traditions through which African American communities memorialized their members. A September birthday roster listing individuals' names addresses and telephone numbers further documents the interpersonal networks maintained through such organizations. Although utilitarian in purpose records of this kind provide unusually direct evidence of the everyday social infrastructure underlying fraternal organizations: the personal connections through which members maintained relationships beyond formal meetings and ceremonies. Prince Hall Freemasonry developed from the efforts of Prince Hall and other free Black men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts who sought participation in a Masonic tradition from which African Americans were largely excluded. African Lodge No. 459 received its charter from the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1784 establishing the institutional foundation from which Prince Hall Freemasonry developed. Over subsequent generations its lodges became important institutions within African American communities fostering networks of fellowship mutual assistance civic engagement and leadership at a time when racial segregation excluded Black Americans from many white civic and fraternal organizations. Spanning the 1940s through the 1990s the present archive demonstrates the continuity of those networks across the transformations of the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights eras. The photographs lodge publication membership material and funeral programs document Prince Hall Freemasonry not simply as a ceremonial organization but as part of a broader infrastructure of Black civic and community life connecting fraternal affiliation with social gatherings institutional leadership churches families and remembrance. Minor edge wear and age-related handling. Photographs retain original editorial markings in margins and on versos. Overall very good condition. unknown
1969réf. 214941969. African American Fraternal Organizations Prince Hall Freemasonry Archive documenting Prince Hall Freemasonry and African American fraternal life from the 1940s through the 1990s illustrating the role of Black Masonic organizations as enduring centers of fellowship leadership mutual support and community organization. Spanning approximately five decades and including material from Pennsylvania Louisiana and Illinois the collection traces Prince Hall activities from formal lodge banquets and Grand Lodge meetings to membership records and the funerary traditions surrounding members of the broader Masonic community. Archive of 7 pieces including three approximately 8.5 x 11 inch press photographs dating from the 1940s through the 1960s a 1969 Golden Star Lodge No. 143 yearbook two 1993 funeral programs and a birthday roster containing members' names and contact information. Together the material provides a cross-section of the institutional and social life sustained by African American fraternal organizations during the mid- and late twentieth century. A 1946 photograph records a large gathering of Pittsburgh's Golden Shield Lodge No. 69. Black lodge members and their female guests fill two long banquet tables beneath a prominent "Golden Shield Lodge No. 69" banner. The image provides a striking visual record of the lodge as a social institution extending beyond formal Masonic ritual into the wider community of members spouses families and guests. A 1969 photograph taken at the annual workshop of the M.W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Louisiana in New Orleans shows three African American Masons in suits conferring during the proceedings. They are identified on the verso as W.S. Finister Jr. Rufus Mayfield and Richard Turnley. The photograph documents the administrative and leadership structure of Prince Hall Masonry and the organized exchange between members that helped sustain its network of local lodges. Also included is the 1969 yearbook of Golden Star Lodge No. 143 of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Its cover bears the Masonic square and compass and records the lodge's meeting place at 143 Orr Street in Pittsburgh. The volume contains membership information meeting schedules guiding principles and tributes to past Worshipful Masters and other members documenting the importance placed upon institutional continuity leadership and collective memory within Black Freemasonry. Two funeral programs from 1993 illustrate the close relationship between African American fraternal religious and community life. A "Home Going Service" for Sister Mattie White was held at Central Baptist Church in Pittsburgh under the direction of Dr. Isaac Green and includes a portrait of White dressed in white. Her identification as "Sister" may indicate participation in a Masonic-affiliated women's organization although a specific affiliation cannot be established from the program alone. A "Service of Triumph" for John Columbus Coger held at New Hope Temple Baptist Church in Philadelphia similarly preserves the dignified commemorative traditions through which African American communities memorialized their members. A September birthday roster listing individuals' names addresses and telephone numbers further documents the interpersonal networks maintained through such organizations. Although utilitarian in purpose records of this kind provide unusually direct evidence of the everyday social infrastructure underlying fraternal organizations: the personal connections through which members maintained relationships beyond formal meetings and ceremonies. Prince Hall Freemasonry developed from the efforts of Prince Hall and other free Black men in eighteenth-century Massachusetts who sought participation in a Masonic tradition from which African Americans were largely excluded. African Lodge No. 459 received its charter from the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1784 establishing the institutional foundation from which Prince Hall Freemasonry developed. Over subsequent generations its lodges became important institutions within African American communities fostering networks of fellowship mutual assistance civic engagement and leadership at a time when racial segregation excluded Black Americans from many white civic and fraternal organizations. Spanning the 1940s through the 1990s the present archive demonstrates the continuity of those networks across the transformations of the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights eras. The photographs lodge publication membership material and funeral programs document Prince Hall Freemasonry not simply as a ceremonial organization but as part of a broader infrastructure of Black civic and community life connecting fraternal affiliation with social gatherings institutional leadership churches families and remembrance. Minor edge wear and age-related handling. Photographs retain original editorial markings in margins and on versos. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1870réf. 1091Paris, Furne, Jouvet et Cie, sans date (1870), fort in-8 ; demie-basane tête de nègre, dos à nerfs, couverture conservée (reliure moderne) ; VIII-666 pages, (1) feuillet de table, 16 gravures hors-texte, nombreuses figures.
1892réf. 63140New York Boston and Philadelphia John C. Yorston & Co. Masonic Publishers 1892. 4to 350 x 280 mm. Five volumes uniformly bound in publisher original full cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to front boards. Small paper-labels pasted on to spines. Light wear to extremities and a few scratches to edges of boards. A few plates with marginal brownspotting otherwise fine and clean. With numerous fine steel engraving. Large Paper Edition of this grand and finely produced biographical compendium of American Freemasonry profusely illustrated with engraved portraits of prominent members across the United States. hardcover
1892réf. 63140New York, Boston and Philadelphia, John C. Yorston & Co., Masonic Publishers, 1892. 4to (350 x 280 mm). Five volumes uniformly bound in publisher original full cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation to front boards. Small paper-labels pasted on to spines. Light wear to extremities and a few scratches to edges of boards. A few plates with marginal brownspotting, otherwise fine and clean. With numerous fine steel engraving.
1813réf. 015433London: Bro. T. Harper Jun Printer 1813. Rare. 7pp. No printed date circa 1813/1824. Disbound. Pages clean. . Near Very Good. Quarto. Bro. T. Harper, Jun, Printer unknown
1905réf. 5217in-folio de 2 ff. daté de Lisbonne, le 27 octobre 1905, signé du Grand Maître, du Président du Conseil et du Secrétaire Général du Grand Orient Lusitanien Uni, avec cachets secs. Il s’agit du texte d’accueil d’Emile Loubet, président de la République Française, devant le Suprême Conseil de la Maçonnerie Portugaise lors de son voyage au Portugal en octobre 1905.
1888réf. 6046Moscow Tx 1888. Good plus. 23331pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum boards. Front board coming detached from foot; loss from foot of spine; moderate wear to corners and edges. Final leaf detached otherwise minimal internal wear. A detailed and long-running record of minutes for the Henderson Yoakum chapter of Freemasons which covers well over thirty years of the group's history. This chapter was located in the small east Texas town of Moscow south of Lufkin whose population was 228 in 1880 according to the census. These entries document the formation of the chapter record votes on members with a count of white and black balls cast bylaws design of a chapter seal announcements of deaths of members foundation of a Masonic school in town and much other chapter business. The book also includes proceedings of trials against members including one on May 27 1860 at which "It was decided that accused was guilty of gross unmasonic conduct by 6 black ball to three white." The entries are interrupted after the meeting on October 20 1860 at which a committee was appointed "To report on the propriety of withdrawing or seceding from the Grand Chapter of the United States." On August 19 1865 after the close of the Civil War the entries resume. An alphabetical index of subjects occupies the initial leaves. The namesake of the masonic chapter Henderson King Yoakum was a soldier politician and author whose 1855 History of Texas was described by John Jenkins as "The first scholarly history of Texas written after annexation." He was a close friend of Sam Houston and a founding member of the chapter that adopted his named. Laid into this record book is a carbon copy of a letter to the son of Texas Governor William P. Hobby remarking that his grandfather Edwin Hobby was a member of the Henderson Yoakum chapter as well as three additional pieces of later Texas masonic ephemera. Also notable is the bookseller's label on the front pastedown denoting that the blank book used to record these minutes was obtained from Henry Hinck Bookseller & Stationer Galveston Tx. A fine document of masonic participation in rural Texas in the second half of the 19th century. unknown
1888réf. 6046Moscow Tx 1888. Good plus. 23331pp. Folio. Contemporary vellum boards. Front board coming detached from foot; loss from foot of spine; moderate wear to corners and edges. Final leaf detached otherwise minimal internal wear. A detailed and long-running record of minutes for the Henderson Yoakum chapter of Freemasons which covers well over thirty years of the group's history. This chapter was located in the small east Texas town of Moscow south of Lufkin whose population was 228 in 1880 according to the census. These entries document the formation of the chapter record votes on members with a count of white and black balls cast bylaws design of a chapter seal announcements of deaths of members foundation of a Masonic school in town and much other chapter business. The book also includes proceedings of trials against members including one on May 27 1860 at which "It was decided that accused was guilty of gross unmasonic conduct by 6 black ball to three white." The entries are interrupted after the meeting on October 20 1860 at which a committee was appointed "To report on the propriety of withdrawing or seceding from the Grand Chapter of the United States." On August 19 1865 after the close of the Civil War the entries resume. An alphabetical index of subjects occupies the initial leaves. The namesake of the masonic chapter Henderson King Yoakum was a soldier politician and author whose 1855 History of Texas was described by John Jenkins as "The first scholarly history of Texas written after annexation." He was a close friend of Sam Houston and a founding member of the chapter that adopted his named. Laid into this record book is a carbon copy of a letter to the son of Texas Governor William P. Hobby remarking that his grandfather Edwin Hobby was a member of the Henderson Yoakum chapter as well as three additional pieces of later Texas masonic ephemera. Also notable is the bookseller's label on the front pastedown denoting that the blank book used to record these minutes was obtained from Henry Hinck Bookseller & Stationer Galveston Tx. A fine document of masonic participation in rural Texas in the second half of the 19th century. unknown books
1798réf. 63098London Scatcherd & Whitaker; Parsons; Cawthorn 1793 - 1798. 8vo. Bound in 11 volumes. Volume 2 - 11 uniformly bound in contemporary half calfs. Volume 1 in half calf with later marbled paper covered boards. Bindings with wear and stains. Leather on spines cracked. Volume 1 with reinforced hinges a dampstain to first leaves. A few volumes with dampstain to first leaves but internally generally a nice and clean set. 616 4 pp. 2 frontispiece and 7 engraved plates; 4 480 pp. 7 plates Wolstieg only calling for 5; 4 450 4 pp. 7 engraved plates; 4 426 6 8 pp. 7 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 3; 2 436 pp. 6 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 2; 2 452 4 pp. 6 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 4; 6 438 4 pp. 8 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 6; 4 464 4 pp. 8 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 4; 6 506 pp. 9 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 4; 2 430 pp. 6 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 1; 2 IV 338 8 pp. 9 engraved plates Wolstieg only calling for 2. This set has a total of 79 engraved plates Wolfstieg only calls for 47 plates. Rare complete run of the first English periodical dedicated to freemasonry “the archetype of later Masonic periodicals” Önnerfors The Freemasons’ Magazine 1793–1798 published at a crucial time in the history of European Freemasonry in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution. It represents one of the first efforts by the fraternity to define consolidate and disseminate its intellectual and moral identity in public. Its contents - lodge proceedings philosophical essays antiquarian inquiries biographical notices poetry and finely executed symbolic engravings - reflect the full breadth of late Enlightenment Masonry. The importance of the work lies in its function as a precursor since it anticipates the Masonic journals in the 19th century and marks the transition of Freemasonry into a self-conscious print-based intellectual culture. ”The Freemasons’ Magazine represent a forceful statement of British Freemasonry concerning its vigour loyalty and societal engagement. During 1794 the journal for the first time served as a platform to refute anti-Masonic writings that circulated in the public. Important apologies such as Defence of masonry 1730 or Cousto’s spiced account of his treatment by the Portuguese inquisition were republished. Parts of Ramsay’s ‘Oration’ were republished not just once but twice. We can also witness how the Knights Templar called the ‘sublime degree of masonry’ entered the world of British Masonic imagination long after the continental development. Nevertheless at the very same time Freemasonry in Britain was also celebrating technological progress in industry agriculture and science which makes its relationship to modernity complex. The Freemasons’ Magazine managed to attract correspondents in different parts of the empire and even the USA. A particularly strong link throughout the first seven volumes was Edinburgh. In the last four volumes we find more material inserted from Ireland at exactly the time when political tensions there erupted into a full-scale rebellion. The political tense years of 1797 and 1798 offer an intriguing insight into the British psyche at the time. Under constant real and imagined threat of French invasion internally shaken by the Irish rebellion uprisings and repeated mutinies public opinion was fuelled with anti-Masonic ideas not at least by Robison’s book Proofs of a conspiracy. The Freemasons’ Magazine unfortunately did not survive 1798. Most importantly perhaps it can be regarded as the archetype of later Masonic periodicals developing into a archtype Masonic press by the middle of the nineteenth century with titles such as he Freemasons’ Quarterly Magazine and Review 1834–53 The Masonic observer 1856–9 he Freemason’s Magazine and Masonic mirror 1856–71 the Freemason 1869–1951 some of them surviving well into the twentieth century. Whereas Masonic periodicals during the first century of their existence tied into the ongoing debates and controversies surrounding Freemasonry in culture and society they developed more and more into purely internal membership magazines with little connection to the outside world.” Önnerfors The Freemasons’ Magazine 1793–1798. Wolfsteig 516 hardcover
1798réf. 63098London, Scatcherd & Whitaker Parsons Cawthorn, 1793 - 1798. 8vo. Bound in 11 volumes. Volume 2 - 11 uniformly bound in contemporary half calfs. Volume 1 in half calf with later marbled paper covered boards. Bindings with wear and stains. Leather on spines cracked. Volume 1 with reinforced hinges a dampstain to first leaves. A few volumes with dampstain to first leaves but, internally, generally a nice and clean set. 616, (4) pp. + 2 frontispiece and 7 engraved plates (4), 480 pp. + 7 plates (Wolstieg only calling for 5) (4), 450, (4) pp. + 7 engraved plates (4), 426, (6), 8 pp. + 7 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 3) (2), 436 pp. + 6 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 2) (2), 452, (4) pp. + 6 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 4) (6), 438, (4) pp. + 8 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 6) (4), 464, (4) pp. + 8 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 4) (6), 506 pp. + 9 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 4) (2), 430 pp. + 6 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 1) (2), IV, 338, (8) pp. + 9 engraved plates (Wolstieg only calling for 2). This set has a total of 79 engraved plates, Wolfstieg only calls for 47 plates.
1782réf. 16243A Edimbourg (Lyon), s.n., 1782 ; 2 tomes in-8, brochés dans leur première couverture de papier dominoté en couleurs marqué "A Orléans chez Leblond N°68" ; (4) de titre, blanc, avis des Editeurs et table, 276 pp. ; (4) faux-titre et titre, 244 pp.
