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Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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IBPOEW travel photographs of Cleveland, Ohio African American Elks members and women auxiliaries en route to Denver and Detroit, circa 1910s, documenting Black fraternal community and the public demonstrations of lodge life well before the Civil Rights Act. The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World was fo…unded in 1897 after Black applicants were excluded from the white Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and it quickly grew into one of the largest African American fraternal orders in the United States, combining mutual aid, ritual, convention life, civic identity, and public ceremony. Women were central to that structure through the Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, organized by Emma V. Kelley in Norfolk in 1902 and publicly active by 1903, with formal recognition as the women's auxiliary following in 1916. Photo archive of 13 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 2" x 2.75" to 2.5" x 4.5", Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, circa 1910s. Manuscript versos identify the group's movements and affiliations with specificity, including "Trip to Denver Convention," "Clevelands coming home from Denver," "In line for last Detroit Mich," "Cleveland Ladies Elks," "On way home from Denver Colorado," and "Way up in the mountains on a big rock," fixing the photographs within lodge travel between Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, and Colorado mountain stops. The images show African American women and men posed beside or leaning from a train, women gathered in broad-brimmed hats, a Black woman with her male companion at the railcar entrance, and two women looking from a train window identified with Cleveland. One of the most captivating images center on women in public fraternal dress marching in parade down a street with the caption "Cleveland Ladies Elks." Another shows two Black women in capes and caps with large tassel-like sash or regalia elements standing before a tent while male band or lodge members gather nearby, one with a trombone visible. Additional images place women outside urban buildings and in outdoor excursion settings, extending the archive from parade and convention into travel, leisure, and intercity movement. These photographs show how African American fraternal organizations created organized travel, convention attendance, ceremonial dress, and women's public participation during the Jim Crow era, when national fraternal orders offered mutual aid, prestige, and institutional belonging otherwise denied in many white civic spaces. The inclusion of women matters especially here; appearing as visible agents within Elks public ceremony and civic duty. Overall very good condition. A surviving archive encompassing Black fraternal organization and women's participation in the early twentieth-century.
