- Collection:
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities
- Title:
- Book cover, Black Square and Compass: 200 Years of Prince Hall Freemasonry
- Creator:
- Richard Nicol
- Date of Original:
- 1947/1964
- Subject:
- King County (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Seattle (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--King County--Pictorial works
Historic sites--Washington (State)--Seattle-- Pictorial works - People:
- Wilkes, Jr, Joseph A.
- Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This rare book, entitled Black Square and Compass, 200 Years of Prince Hall Freemasonary, is by Joseph A. Wilkes, Jr., and held in the library of the Black Heritage Society of Washington State. The Prince Hall Masons were first organized in 1775 among free blacks in Boston, Massachusetts, and Seattle's Prince Hall Masons met in the lodge at 23rd Avenue and Madison Street.
document - Local Identifier:
- 326
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/kccollects/id/348
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/kccollects:348/manifest.json
- Extent:
- Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import.
- Original Collection:
- King County Museum Collections
- Contributing Institution:
- Black Heritage Society of Washington State
- Rights:
-
