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Group of Men Signing the Papers for the Transfer of land for the Charlton Masonic Home to the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, taken at the Grand Lodge
1909
Elmer Chickering (1857-1915)
USA: Massachusetts, Boston
Photograph, paper
overall (image): 10"h x 13-1/2"w; overall (sheet): 18"h x 22-1/8"w
Loaned by the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts
GL2004.7185

Black and white photograph mounted on cream board. The photo shows an interior at the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. In the foreground is a man seated at a desk. One man is seated at the side of the desk and a group of eleven other men are seated around the desk facing the photographer. At lower left, the photo is marked "By / E. Chickering / 1909." The men depicted are presumed to be Dana Flanders, Frank T. Deonell, Charles C. Hitchuson, Arthur G. Pollard, John Carr, Samuel C. Lawrence, Edwin B. Holmes, Henry A. Belcher, Charles T. Gallagher, Melvin M. Johnson, Allen Treadway, Charles Pawsey, and Thomas Davis.


For further information, see Newell, Aimee, et.al., "Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection", 2013, p. 156; and blog post, January 14, 2010 http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2010/01/the-charlton-masonic-home.html