[Freemasons membership certificate] – Historic Print
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This printed membership certificate is a blank-form document of the kind lodges issued to individual Freemasons, with its decorative design and Masonic emblems meant to signal the holder's standing in the fraternity. The record dates it to about 1861 and ties it to a copyright deposit, and the shelf card names a firm, Menzel (G.A.) & Co., though that attribution is unverified. Certificates like this were often lithographed in quantity and completed by hand with a member's name and lodge details, so they show how fraternal organizations used printed ornament in the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | c1861 May 25. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | 75 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Menzel (G.A.) & Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,228 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110654 |
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