Degree Night at the Robing Room

Degree Night at the Robing Room

Artist Frank A. Stockwell captured a backstage scene at a Scottish Rite degree ceremony. Stockwell was both a commercial artist and a Scottish Rite Mason with firsthand knowledge of the group’s theatrical degrees. After his death, his brothers remembered him for “his dramatic roles in many of the degrees.”

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Loaned by the Buffalo Consistory, Valley of Buffalo, New York, A.A.S.R., EL2006.001.2.

Frank A. Stockwell (1890-1970), Buffalo, New York