(FRATERNAL) Membership ledger of an International Benevolent

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(FRATERNAL.) Membership ledger of an International Benevolent Order of Elks lodge in suburban New York. [3], 296 manuscript pages plus 22-page index. Folio, 13¾ x 8¼ inches, original ½ calf, worn and lacking backstrip; minor dampstaining, coming disbound, one possibly blank leaf (297-298) excised. New York, 1923-1935

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Judging by the addresses of its members, this lodge was likely in or near White Plains, NY. Each member is given a full page recording their name, address, occupation, age, and monthly dues payments. Some entries also record extra donations to the lodge charitable fund, and others record a member's death or suspension due to non-payment of dues. Most of the members were butlers, janitors, chauffeurs, mechanics, porters, and other similar trades. Andrew White (page 56) was an antiques dealer; Theodore Jay Lee (145) was an undertaker; and Arthur M. Williams (171) was a physician. On the flyleaf is recorded a 1925 visiting delegation from Monarch Lodge No. 45, one of five Harlem Elks lodges, founded by numbers mogul Caspar Holstein (1876-1944), which had its club room on 137th Street. One of the guests was Dr. Hudson Oliver, who had been a star basketball player and four-time winner of the Colored Basketball World Championship in the early 1900s.

With--4 photographs of Masonic events, 8 x 10 inches. New York State, 1955 and undated.

10 pamphlets for New York-area Prince Hall Masons, 1938-1978.