Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August old Boston map and the brick canyons of

and the brick canyons of Market Street where penny postcards once moved faster than the trolleys

distillers

dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias

Sept 21st 1846

California Yosemite arrives in lithographed grandeur — Half Dome at dusk

Grand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August old Boston map and the brick canyons ofGrand Parade of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave, San Francisco, August a fraternal chromolithograph of plumed helmets and ceremonial swords marching through the bay city, the Masonic order rendered in the ornate civic confidence of a republic that had learned to dress its rituals in industrial age splendor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,