As a follow-up to Bridget’s post about the “N.C. I.O.O.F.,” here are several I.O.O.F.-related items from the Lew Powell Memorabilia Collection.
I have to say that I love the somewhat-racy button showing the lady’s leg, garter, and her “Tar Heel.”
Day: November 5, 2009
N.C. I.O.O.F.
Above is a postcard showing an Odd Fellows’ Lodge in Beaufort, NC. It turns out we’ve got a lot of materials relating to various secret societies and fraternal orders in North Carolina, including the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Interestingly, the card mentions that the lodge is over a hundred years old, which places the construction of the lodge to ca. 1805-1815.
Below is an excerpt from the inside of the front cover of the “Ritual of a Subordinate Lodge under the Jurisdiction of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,” published by the I.O.O.F. in 1908 (VC097 O22r). While it was used in the Centennial Lodge of Elm City, it dates to roughly the same time the postcard was created.
