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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Home with Children
ca. 1913
Maker not marked
USA: Missouri, Liberty
Photograph on paper mounted on board
sheet: 14"h x 17"w
Museum Purchase
2016.004

Black and white group photograph of children standing in front of Odd Fellows Home. Image shows six rows of children with one adult man in back row on proper left side. They stand in front of a stone building with the name "ODD FELLOWS HOME / 1900." The photograph is a print and adhered to a light brown cardboard. The photograph is loose on the board and now only adhered at the top proper right corner.


The Odd Fellows established facilities that cared for elderly members, and the widows and orphans of members. This brick building served as the administrative offices for a home operated by the Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Missouri in Liberty, Missouri. From these offices, managers ran the business of the home’s school, hospital, working farm, and cemetery. At the height of its activity in the early 1900s, the Liberty facility housed just under 200 children and adults. For further information, see blog post, January 2, 2018, http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2018/01/odd-fellows-home.html AND blog post, December 8, 2015, http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2015/12/new-to-the-collection-a-miniature-chair-in-a-bottle.html



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