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<titleproper encodinganalog="Title">Inventory of the Order Sons of Italy in America, Alabama Grand Lodge Records, 1923-1987.</titleproper>
<author encodinganalog="Contributor">Finding aid created by Immigration History Research Center staff, March 01, 1988</author>
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<date encodinganalog="Date">December 17, 2003</date>
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<corpname encodinganalog="110">Order Sons of Italy in America. Alabama Grand Lodge.</corpname>
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<unittitle encodinganalog="245$a" label="Title: ">Order Sons of Italy in America, Alabama Grand Lodge Records,</unittitle>
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<language encodinganalog="041" langcode="eng">In English and Italian.</language></langmaterial></did>
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<head>Biographical/Historical Note</head>
<p>The Alabama Grand Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy in America was founded in 1929.</p>
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<p>Records (1923-1987) of the Alabama Lodge, Order Sons of Italy in America, include a Supreme Convention book (1957); a "Demand for Dispensation" for a local lodge (1945); Grand Lodge Columbus Day booklets (1950, 1958, 1964-1972), and a list of Grand Lodge officers (1987). Also included are a receipt book of Bessemer (Alabama) Lodge No. 1497 (1963-1975), and a book listing members and dues payments, probably of the Bessemer Lodge (1927-1966). Collection also includes a booklet of the statutes and regulations of the Societa Italiana Femminile Corona Regina Elena (Bessemer, AL), 1923; and photocopies of the SIlver Anniversary booklet of the Italian Society of U.S. P. P. (Umberto di Savoia Principle di Piemonte, 1929). Some photographs are also included.</p>
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<p>This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. </p>
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<subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Italian Americans--Alabama--Bessemer--Societies, etc.</subject><subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Italian Americans--Societies, etc.</subject><subject encodinganalog="650" source="lcsh">Friendly societies--Alabama--Bessemer.</subject>
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