Details
Contributor Hart, William, printer.
Title New Oddfellows Hall Philada. Dedicated 17 September 1846. Grand master of a grand lodge. Of I. O. of O. F. in full regalia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: W. Hart lith. 21 Bank St
Date [1847]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; 23 x 26 cm.(9 x 10.25 in.)
Description View showing the four-story marble building built 1845-1846 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Sixth Street below Race Street. In the left foreground, an Odd Fellow grand master wearing a chin beard and attired in his apron and vest stands, resting his hat on his hip with one hand, and gesturing toward the building with his other. The Odd Fellows, a benevolent and charitable organization, was established in Philadelphia in 1821.
Is referenced by See Wainwright 248
Notes Published as frontispiece in William Thompson's Odd Fellowship defended, containing the exposure of the false and malicious representations of an "expelled member" together with valuable statistics of the order. (Philadelphia: G. S. Harris, 1847)
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 505.2
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tt.* 649, vol. 1
Variant of Wainwright 248.
October 18, 1957. Penrose fund.
Subject Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- Buildings.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Frontispieces -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department| HSP at LCP| HSP Tt.* 649, vol. 1