Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Lantern Slide - How Jones Became a Mason
1895-1925
A. D. Handy Stereopticons and Supplies
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Glass
overall: 3-3/16"h x 4"w x 1/8"d
Gift of Anne R. Berntsen
2008.023.70

Lantern slide in color. Slide depicts a man (Jones) being held by a rope over a barrel of water having just been plunged into the water by a group of masked men in white robes. A label printed in black is applied to one end of the slide and reads, "How Jones Became A Mason-9. The plunge into water." A label printed in red applied to the other end of the slide reads, "A.D. Handy, Stereopticons & Supplies, Boston."