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Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections LibraryP.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/
Sony Prosper
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
MSS 16411 Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Collection, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nancy Garnett-Williams, accession 2018-0089.
Historical Note
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.
Scope and Contents Note
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.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in two series: Meeting and subject files; and Artifacts and objects.
Separated Material
27 publications, consisting of quarterlies, annual proceedings, and annual reports were separated for cataloging.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- flags
- letters (correspondence)
- minutes (administrative records)
Container List
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.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Meeting minutes book1880-1891English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Member registration book1880-1918English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Meeting minutes and finances1881-1919English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Meeting minutes1891-1898English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Financial ledger1893-1928English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Finances1900-1936
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1
Financial Ledger1919-1923English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1
Meeting minutes book1919-1937English.
- Mixed Materials [X031677073] box: 1 1
Member registration book1919-1943English.
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.
- Mixed Materials [X031677197] box: 2 2
Flagcirca 1900s
- Mixed Materials Flat_Box: Oversized Box S-112 Oversize_Folder(Within_an_OSBox): 2 2
Fraternal order aproncirca 1900s
- Mixed Materials [X031677197] box: 2 2
Fraternal order collarcirca 1900s
- Mixed Materials [X031677196] Oversize_Flat_File_folder: 1 2
Map of the Gordon Cemetery1931