Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Junior Order of United American Mechanics Chart - Our Mission
1891
Dawson Lawrence
USA: Pennsylvania, South Bethlehem
Chromolithograph on paper
overall: 24-1/4"h x 18-1/2"w
Gift of Richard Kern
86.30.2

Junior Order of United American Mechanics Chart - Our Mission lithograph; scene shows head of George Washington, two American flags, square and compasses with arm and hammer, Civil War soldier, Liberty; central vignette shows head of Benjamin Franklin inside map of North America, public school, soldiers, columns; arch above vignette reads "Virtue / Liberty / Patriotism / 1775 /1853"; vignettes surrounding show scenes of men, women, children, U.S. Capitol, tools and machines; reads on bottom "Entered according to Act of Congress by Dawson Lawrence, So. Bethl'm Pa. in 1891 in the office of the Librarian Washington, adapted by National Council, 1891 / OUR MISSION"; overprinted in gold.