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The Rosales Cigar Patent of 196 is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

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issued in the order's golden-age decade when lodges multiplied across Gilded Age cities and brotherhood itself had become a kind of civic religion

Historical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898 vintage alaska map The Rosales Cigar Patent ofHistorical and Symbolic Depictions of the Knights of the Mystic Chain 1898. A fraternal chromolithograph thick with regalia and allegory chains, swords, and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late century lodge culture, when American men sought brotherhood in secret orders and stitched their virtues onto banners. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the