Historical Portrait
Knights of Pythias
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Historical group portrait of 17 Knights of Pythias lodge members photographed in Lodi, California in 1903. Public-domain historical photograph.
About this photograph
The photograph shows seventeen members of a Knights of Pythias lodge in Lodi, California, taken in 1903. The photographer was Celia Crocker Thompson, who was based in the area during this period.
The Knights of Pythias was a fraternal organization, and lodges like this one brought together local men for mutual aid and social purposes. This group portrait, typical of lodge photography at the turn of the twentieth century, would have recorded the membership at a particular moment in the organization's life.
The photograph is held by the Internet Archive and came through California Revealed, a statewide program that digitizes material from California libraries, archives, museums and historical societies and makes it publicly available. Material reaching the archive through this program comes from many separate local institutions across the state.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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