Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Tracing Board
1880-1890
Curtis
USA: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Oil on canvas
frame: 54"h x 27"w x 2"d; stretcher: 49"h x 22-3/4"w x 1"d
Museum Purchase
95.015

Independent Order of Odd Fellows tracing board; rectangular; showing 22 Odd Fellows symbols in twenty rectangular cantons; signed at lower right corner by artist "Curtis / Philad."

Over twenty symbols used to teach the degrees in Odd Fellowship are depicted on this tracing board. The artist who created this work signed it “Curtis.” This work was likely created in Philadelphia; the artist’s identity is not known.