Badge from the Philadelphia First Masonic District Temple cornerstone-laying: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A circular pin-back button with attached yellow ribbon celebrating the corner-stone laying of the First Masonic District Temple in Philadelphia. The circular button features a street level black-and-white image of a three story brick building with the words [MASONIC TEMPLE] over the door. The back of the button is covered in a circular piece of textured black paper and has a metal pin fastener. A length of yellow ribbon is fixed to the bottom edge of the button and is printed with purple text detailing the event. The ribbon is cut into an inverted "V" shape at its bottom. The back of the ribbon is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1951
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, American, founded 1787
• Type: badges
• Medium: ink on paper, metal, ribbon, and plastic laminate
• Dimensions: 5 3/4 × 2 1/8 × 3/8 in. (14.6 × 5.4 × 1 cm)
• Place collected: Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Freemasonry
• Object number: 2013.71.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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