Tracing Board

Tracing Board

Brothers at Trinity Lodge in Clinton, Massachusetts, used this tracing board to instruct new members about different Masonic symbols’ meaning and uses. Lodge records show that in 1863 members decided to procure a new tracing board and appointed a committee to undertake the task. Committee member Levi Green (dates unknown) commissioned this tracing board and presented it to the lodge. The artist who painted the work for Green may have employed a printed Masonic chart as a model for his work.

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Gift of Trinity Lodge, A.F. & A.M., Clinton, Massachusetts, 97.007.1

1863