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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Unknown Artist — Seated Masonic lodge master and wife

Unknown Artist

Seated Masonic lodge master and wife

1852

Freemasonry's prominence in 19th-century American society is evident in this carefully composed daguerreotype, which presents the lodge master's authority alongside domestic partnership.

Medium
daguerreotype, quarter plate

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