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Cornerstone Laying, Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown, Mass.
1907
Maker not marked
USA: Massachusetts (probably)
Photograph on paper on board
board: 11"h x 14"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.5132

Photographic view of ceremonial table with Bible, candles, and chalices; Masons in top hats, among them Brother Theodore Roosevelt, watching cornerstone laying ceremony; Printed in script on label on board below image: "Laying of Corner Stone / Pilgrim Monument / Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 20 1907." Reverse blank.

With ceremony and fanfare, officers of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts—observed by Brother Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)—laid the cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in August of 1907.