Fifty years of Odd Fellowship in California : commemorating the founding of the Order by the instituting of California Lodge No. 1, on September ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine
A commemorative history published in San Francisco in 1899 by the Grand Encampment of California of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, marking fifty years since the founding of California Lodge No. 1 in 1849 and written for the fraternity's members. Its pictures are small, cropped, oval or round sepia-toned portraits of men in dark suits, high collars and neckties, set against plain pale backgrounds, offering a designer period-accurate Victorian male portrait types, moustaches and formal dress for vintage editorial layouts or framed-photo motifs.
