Modern Woodmen of America Letterhead | Print | Wisconsin Historical Society

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Modern Woodmen of America Letterhead

Modern Woodmen of America Letterhead | Print | Wisconsin Historical Society
Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883. The letterhead has a costumed jester against a red background holding a jester's head on a stick, on the left a figure of a logger in work clothes holding an axe and standing beside a cut log, and on the right a uniformed figure of a man holding an axe. Text is printed on banner, sign, and circle fields decorated with evergreen branches and cones. A list of chairmen of committees is printed alongside the left-hand side of the page. Printed in green and red ink.
DESCRIPTION
Letterhead of the Milwaukee office of the Local Executive Committee for Head Camp Entertainment for a convention on June 20th to 24th, 1905, of the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal benefit society founded in 1883. The letterhead has a costumed jester against a red background holding a jester's head on a stick, on the left a figure of a logger in work clothes holding an axe and standing beside a cut log, and on the right a uniformed figure of a man holding an axe. Text is printed on banner, sign, and circle fields decorated with evergreen branches and cones. A list of chairmen of committees is printed alongside the left-hand side of the page. Printed in green and red ink.
RECORD DETAILS
Image ID:88417
Creation Date: 1905
Creator Name:Unknown
City:Milwaukee
County:Milwaukee
State:Wisconsin
Collection Name:Letterhead collection, circa 1850s-1975
Genre:Print
Original Format Type:prints, photomechanical
Original Format Number:PH 4908.10
Original Dimensions:8.5 x 11 inches
SUBJECTS
Performing arts
Fraternal organizations
Costume
Hats
Work clothes
Insurance
Artists
Entertainers
Men
Comedians
Lumberjacks
Ephemera

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