Ladies Night Reading Consistory
date: label: date made
content: 1922
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Folding pocket mirror made of ivory-grained celluloid. Printing in black reads "Ladies Night Reading Consistory" and has the image of a double-headed eagle with a triangle on its chest and the number 32. Below it is a banner reading "spes mea in deo est," which means "My hope is in God."
label: Description (Brief)
content: This is likely a favor from a consistory of the Thirty-Second Degree, or Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret in the Ancient and Accepted Rite Scottish Rite of Reading, Pa. A branch of freemasonry, the group uses the word "consistory" in place of the word "meeting."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Fraternal Associations
label: Subject
content: Freemasonry
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
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content: Celluloid
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content: Clothing & Accessories
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1162
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1162
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pocket mirror
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (front material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11.5 cm x 5 cm x .7 cm; 4 1/2 in x 1 15/16 in x 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall-folded: 3/8 in x 2 in x 2 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 5.08 cm x 6.35 cm