Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 1 videocassette

Summary

1. The collection contains one video of the 88th anniversary and cornerstone laying ceremony of the M.W. King Solomon Grand Lodge at the Alhambra Theatre Building on June 12, 1994.

Subject

1. King Solomon Grand Lodge of New York
2. African American fraternal organizations
3. African American freemasonry

Genre/Form

1. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS King 1996-37

Note

1. The Most Worshipful King Solomon Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of New York is a fraternal organization that was organized in Niagara Falls on July 18, 1906. The organization's first masonic home was purchased at 71-73 West 131st Street under the administration of John H. Smith, who served from 1919-1932. In 1964, the Alhambra Theatre Building at 126th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard was purchased and renovated. Over the years, the Lodge has contributed to the following charities: the Harlem Hospital Auxiliary, the Brooklyn Home for the Aged, NAACP, Queens Children Center, Urban League, and YMCA, among others.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the M.W. King Solomon Grand Lodge of New York collection. (Sc MG 598)

Author

1. King Solomon Grand Lodge of New York.

Title

1. M.W. King Solomon Grand Lodge of New York moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1996]

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the M.W. King Solomon Grand Lodge of New York collection. (Sc MG 598)

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS King 1996-37