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Lithograph - "The Oriental Guide"

1975-03-15

Multi colored lithograph of biblical and masonic scenes with a thin gold border. "Copyright by James Warren Currier, 1874" printed in center below image. "Armstrong & Co. Boston" printed below lower right corner of image. "The Oriental Guide" printed in large black script in center below bottom gold border.

This lithograph is part of a larger group of items donated by St. Paul's Masonic Lodge in Litchfield, CT. St. Paul's Lodge received its Charter in 1781 from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, and, therefore, traces its ancestry to Scotland. The first man initiated and raised to the degree of a Master Mason was Julius Deming in 1781. St. Paul's Lodge has met in many locations during its history, and was largely nomadic for the first one hundred years of its existence. In 1885 the Lodge purchased the former Methodist Church on Meadow Street. St. Paul's Masonic Lodge is still active to this day, and has remained in their home on Meadow Street since its purchase in the late nineteenth century.

• Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

1874

Height 26"; Width 20"

• paper
• ink