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Michigan Commandery Dinner Menu
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Front cover and menu page for a dinner of the "Loyal Legion. Michigan Commandery with Saginaw Valley Companions at Bancroft House," with the badge of the organization suspended from a tri-colored red, white, and blue ribbon. The seal, a golden eagle with outstretched wings against a red background, is encircled with the legend, "Lex regit, arma tuentur" (Law reigns, arms uphold) on a blue and gold Maltese cross. The menu page is adorned with a draped flag of the United States interlaced with the letters of "Menu".
December 3, 1891
Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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