Group portrait of a Masonic lodge chapter

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A large group of men stand on a series of steps in front of a set of double doors. All of the men are dressed in suits; the nine men standing in the front row clearly don Masonic regalia. Two of the men in the front row hold staffs aloft which have the square and compass insignia fashioned in metal at the ends.

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