2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Single sheet fancy printed 9 x 12 broadside (blank reverse) with large, multi-style heading “Secretary’s Office…District Grand Lodge I.O.B.B. [B’Nai Brith] New Orleans, June 1, 1900” with large printed seal of B.B. with menorah and Hebrew wording. Addressed “To the Secretaries of District Grand Lodge” advising them that the annual convention recently held in New Orleans unanimously adopted resolutions: “The subject is one that should interest every Jew of the South, young or old” and to advise their fellow members as well as nonmembers of each person’s community to help solve “this perplexing question.” The resolutions for: “…creating a fund to be designated as the ‘Manual Training School Fund’ for the educational or Eleemosynary [sic] purposes either by the District Grand Lodge alone or in conjunction with other organizations” with details of how the funds shall be raised by contributions and donations etc. Light aging. Some tiniest nicks and tatters on extreme edge of blank margin. Fragile, yet very sound. Rare; not listed in Singerman.
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