Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Group of Independent Order of Odd Fellows Officers in Regalia
ca. 1900
Arthur M. Wiggins (1863-1936)
USA: New York, Oneida
Photograph on paper on card
sheet: 13-3/4"h x 18"w
Special Acquisitions Fund
81.32

Group of men in Independent Order of Odd Fellows regalia; sepia-tone photograph; group of men in Odd Fellows collars and jewels; Master seated at table, which is covered with cloth reading "IOOF" and has three rings; fur and oriental rugs in foreground; painted backdrop; stamped on bottom "Photo. By A.M. Wiggins."

Around 1900, officers of an Odd Fellows lodge gathered together in Arthur M. Wiggins’ studio for a photograph. Dressed in street clothes, the men also wear a variety of styles of collars, sashes and jewels that indicate the different offices they held. At the center of the image is the lodge’s Noble Grand. He wields a gavel, a symbol of his role and responsibility as presiding officer of the lodge.