At the Hobart museum, I find that it pays to go through files again and again, because the more I learn, the more meaningful the contents become. Case in point: some Quinlan photos that I recently encountered in a photo file — I'm sure I looked through that file a couple of years ago, but the presence of the photos did not register in my mind the first time I saw them because the name, Quinlan, simply didn't mean anything to me.
This is one shows us — according to a handwritten note on the back — "Sam Quinlan, Knight Templar" in all the glory of his Masonic regalia. No date on it, nor any indication of whether it was taken in Oklahoma or Indiana.
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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
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