Objects

Past Masters Masonic Night Union Lodge No. 5
1970
Hamilton Photo Co.
USA: Connecticut, Stamford
Photograph on paper
Overall: 8"h x 10"w
Gift of George Talisse
2015.062.3

Black and white photograph of standing men wearing Masonic aprons. Twenty men stand in three rows wearing suits and Masonic aprons with triangular flaps. Man in center of front row wears a top hat, and a Worshipful Master cord with Masonic square. His apron has the all-seeing eye on the flap, and a Masonic square embroidered on the front. The two men to his left wear aprons embroidered with the all-seeing eye on the flap, and the square and compass with sun symbol of the Senior Deacon. Typed in black ink at the bottom of the picture "Past Masters Night Union Lodge #5, May 6, 1970" followed by the names of the men in the order of their rows. "1st Row L to R: Herbert R. Trolle; Ernest M. Lofgren; Henry C. Richards; Harold I. Fransen W.M.; Albert G. / Spires; Percy H. Hartwright; Henry F. Gerke Jr.; Arthur C. Baribult. / 2nd Row L to R: Benjamin A. Jessup; Carl J. DelVecchio; Harry T. Kerr; Rueben E. Curran; Donald M. Lewis; / James A. Wright; Clifford F. Callupe. / 3rd Row Lto R: Thomas H. Cole; Robert H. Sherwood; Emerson W. Barlow; Kurt Raillard; John Tenca." Stamped in black on the back of the card "Hamilton Photo / 70 Courtland Hill Street / Stamford, Connecticut 06906 / 203-324-2028 / Print No. [1832 handwritten in blue ink] / MAY 6, 1970"