Details
Contributor Hunter, Thomas, printer.
Davis, S.S., copyright holder.
Title Knights of Pythias [membership certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Liht. [sic] by T. Hunter
Date c1873
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone, 85 x 64 cm. (32.5 x 24.5 in.)
Description Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government."
Notes Text printed with blue ink.
Not in Wainwright.
Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 130
Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2006e (E size) Knights of Pythias
Subject Knights of Pythias.
Fraternal organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Benevolence.
Charity.
Friendship.
Persecution.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Membership certificates -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Davis, S.S., copyright holder.
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PAGA 7, no. 2006e (E size) Knights of Pythias