Details
Contributor Herline & Hensel, printer.
Title Unabhangiger Deutscher Orden der Harugari. Dieses diploma [certificate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Herline & Hensel lith. 632 Chestnut St
Date ca. 1865
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 56 x 43 cm. (22 x 17 in.)
Description Certificate written in German for the German Order of the Harugari composed of text surrounded by eight allegorical vignettes, symbols of the fraternal order, and filigree and scrollwork. The top vignette depicts a robed, bearded man holding a staff. Other vignettes depict a robed female figure holding a liberty pole; two men with shovels in the woods; a mother and father consoling a young child; a group of men standing near an open grave; a husband and wife standing next to their bedridden child; a man held by soldiers awaiting crucifixion; and a man being arrested. Symbols of the fraternal order include a handshake, a winged hourglass, crossed canes, a skeleton with a scythe, gavels bound with a ribbon, crossed swords, a skull and crossbones, a heart in hand, three crossed arrows, a half moon, a beehive with farm implements and an open Bible. Includes the society's seal at the bottom. Secret society founded in 1847.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Issued to Otto Gratz, Humboldt Loge No. 71, Philadelphia, 15 Marz 1868. Signed Albr. Loechner O.B. and Wm. Zimmermann Secr.
Majority of inscription illegible.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 258
Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2405
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Biographical / historical note Herline & Hensel operated their lithographic establishment from 632 Chestnut Street 1862-1866.
Subject Fraternal organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Secret societies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
German Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Societies, etc.
Death & burial.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Certificates -- 1860-1870.
Location Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Home and Community Life Collection| SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2405]
Accession number SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2405]