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MSS 16411 Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Collection, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
Gift of Nancy Garnett-Williams, accession 2018-0089.
Madison Friendship Lodge No. 2121 of Madison County, Virginia was founded in 1880 in Madison County, Virginia. The Lodge is a branch of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America, an African American fraternal order founded in 1843 in New York.
The Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection (1880-1937; 3 cubic feet) contains minute books, financial records, correspondence, event programs, proceedings, a cemetary plot, a framed faternal collar, a fraternal apron, and a flag. Loose manuscripts, meeting minutes, and notes make up the remainder of the collection.
This collection is arranged in two series: Meeting and subject files; and Artifacts and objects.
27 publications, consisting of quarterlies, annual proceedings, and annual reports were separated for cataloging.
This series is arranged in chronological order. Except for the "Meeting minutes and finances" and "Finances" folders, which refelect received order, order has been imposed by the processing archivist.
This series contains a wide variety of materials. The bulk of the materials consist of bound ledgers containing meeting minutes and financial information, including bills, checks, and a financial quarterly report. Other material include correspondence, proceedings, regalia price lists, registration books, catalogs, event programs, and printed ephemera. The material cover a variety of topics, mostly related to member dues and relief given to members, such as sickness or death.
This series contains three-dimensional objects. These include an American flag, a fraternal order apron, a fraternal order collar, and a map of the Gordon cemetery.
Items in this series are not arranged.