Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Knights Templar "Little Commandery" Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home with Knights Templar Ribbon
1895
Veasey & Johnston
USA: Kentucky, Louisville
photograph on paper mounted on board; silk
overall: 13-3/4"h x 15-1/2"w x 1/4'd
Museum Purchase
2014.066.4

Knights Templar "Little Commandery" Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home photograph with Knights Templar ribbon. Sepia-tone photograph of four rows of boys in Knights Templar uniforms standing on the steps in front of a building. Knights Templar banner at center back. American flag at left and another flag (state of Kentucky?) at right. Older man stands at center back and wears a dark suit. Printed in black along the bottom is ""Little Commandery" Masonic Widows and Orphans' Home, / Louisville, Kentucky / 1895." Printed at lower right corner is "Veasey & Johnston, Photographers, Louisville, Ky." Attached to the left side of the mat is a black and white striped grosgrain ribbon. Self-fringed along the bottom edge. Gold trim applied along the top. Stamped in gold "Columbian No. 1 / Morton No. 4 / Palestine No. 18 / Coeur de Lion No. 23 / Manhattan No. 31 / Ivanhoe No. 36 / Canstantine No. 48 / York No. 55 / Commanderies / of the / City of New York / to / the Little / Commandery / of Louisville KY / Aug. 30th 1895."