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Concept

Fraternal organizations

Images

  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • A sick man in a bed, receiving support from members of his friendly society. Engraving and letterpress, 1800.
  • Members of the Noble Order of Bucks drinking and smoking. Engraving and etching, c. 1756.
  • Members of a friendly society compensating one of its members for ill-health. Pen and ink and watercolour, c. 1807.
  • A sick man in a bed, receiving support from members of his friendly society. Engraving and letterpress, 1800.
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Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Birmingham Provident Dispensary (Hockley Branch)

    | Date: 1877-1948 | Reference: AMS/MF/6
    • Books

    State of the Benevolent Medical Society, for the relief of the widows & orphans of medical men, in Essex and Hertfordshire.

    Essex and Hertfordshire Benevolent Medical Society. | Date: 1838
    • Books
    • Online

    Hints on agricultural subjects, and on the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes / By J.C. Curwen.

    Curwen, J. C. (John Christian), 1756-1828. | Date: 1809
    • Books

    The friendly societies in England, 1815-1875 / [P.H.J.H. Gosden].

    Gosden, P. H. J. H. | Date: [1961; label: New York, Barnes & Noble]
    • Books

    The original Etruria Friendly Society : began the eighteenth day of June, in the year 1796.

    Etruria Friendly Society (Etruria, England) | Date: [1980?]
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