Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection

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Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Special Collections Public Services & Reference Staff
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

MSS 16411 Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Collection, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
3 Cubic Feet 1 record carton, 1 oversized box, and 2 oversized folders.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

MSS 16411 Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Collection, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection (1880-1937; 3 cubic feet) contains minute books, financial records, correspondence, event programs, proceedings, a cemetary plot, a framed faternal collar, a fraternal apron, and a flag. Loose manuscripts, meeting minutes, and notes make up the remainder of the collection.

This series contains a wide variety of materials. The bulk of the materials consist of bound ledgers containing meeting minutes and financial information, including bills, checks, and a financial quarterly report. Other material include correspondence, proceedings, regalia price lists, registration books, catalogs, event programs, and printed ephemera. The material cover a variety of topics, mostly related to member dues and relief given to members, such as sickness or death.

This series contains three-dimensional objects. These include an American flag, a fraternal order apron, a fraternal order collar, and a map of the Gordon cemetery.

Biographical / historical:

Madison Friendship Lodge No. 2121 of Madison County, Virginia was founded in 1880 in Madison County, Virginia. The Lodge is a branch of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America, an African American fraternal order founded in 1843 in New York.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Nancy Garnett-Williams, accession 2018-0089.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in two series: Meeting and subject files; and Artifacts and objects.

This series is arranged in chronological order. Except for the "Meeting minutes and finances" and "Finances" folders, which refelect received order, order has been imposed by the processing archivist.

Items in this series are not arranged.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard