Knights Templar officers golf on Mississippi Gulf coast - Edgewater Park, Miss. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Knights Templar officers golf on Mississippi Gulf coast - Edgewater Park, Miss., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Knights Templar officers golf on Mississippi Gulf coast - Edgewater Park, Miss.
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Officers of the Knights Templar, a Masonic order, are pictured playing golf at Edgewater Park, Mississippi, on March 17, 1930, a day spent on the course rather than in ceremony. Fraternal groups like this one held conventions and social outings, so the photograph offers a glimpse of how men's lodge life mixed with leisure between the world wars. Gulf coast resorts drew winter and spring visitors, and the scene reflects a golf culture that was spreading across the South at the time. The caption details are partly unverified, so the exact individuals and occasion remain uncertain.
| Created / published | 1930 March 17. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No. C.H. 505434S"? This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Freemasons--K- T- --1930; Miss.--E- P- --1930; BI (4); Sports--Golf--1930; Geogr.; Fraternal Organiz; Shelf." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,283 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170860 |
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