Badge with an image of the Newark, NJ Prince Hall Masonic Temple: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white circular button with an image of the Prince Hall Masonic Temple in Newark, New Jersey. The front of the badge features a street level black-and-white image of a four-story building at the center. Text printed in black and curving around the upper and lower edge of the button reads [PRINCE HALL MASONIC TEMPLE / NEWARK, N.J.]. There is no fastener on the back of the badge, which has a circular metal insert and blank white paper backing.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: mid 20th cent.
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New Jersey, American, founded 1845
• Type: badges
• Medium: ink on paper, metal, and plastic laminate
• Dimensions: 1 3/4 × 3/16 in. (4.4 × 0.5 cm)
• Place depicted: 188 Irvine Turner Blvd, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
• Place collected: Prince Hall Grand Lodge, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Freemasonry
• Object number: 2013.71.6
• 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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