Title: With the Pythians to California Author: Caro, Leo A. Place: Grand Rapids, Mich. Publisher: International Publishing Company Date: 1902 Description: 43 pp. Illustrated from photographs, two San Francisco and Chinatown. 21.5x15 cm (8½x5¾"), original wrappers. First Edition. Account, by the Grand Chancellor, Grand Domain of Michigan, Knights of Pythias (a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864), of a "great pilgrimage to the Pacific coast by the followers of Damon and Pythias... Eleven coaches, well filled, numbering over four hundred people, singing 'Michigan, My Michigan...'" Notable Pythians over the years have included Louis Armstrong, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William McKinley William Jennings Bryan Hubert H. Humphrey, Lew Wallace, and others. Only one copy of the booklet is listed in OCLC/WorldCat, at the Huntington Library. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor creasing and wear to wrappers, very good. Item number: 286087
Title: With the Pythians to California Author: Caro, Leo A. Place: Grand Rapids, Mich. Publisher: International Publishing Company Date: 1902 Description: 43 pp. Illustrated from photographs, two San Francisco and Chinatown. 21.5x15 cm (8½x5¾"), original wrappers. First Edition. Account, by the Grand Chancellor, Grand Domain of Michigan, Knights of Pythias (a fraternal organization and secret society founded in Washington, D.C., in 1864), of a "great pilgrimage to the Pacific coast by the followers of Damon and Pythias... Eleven coaches, well filled, numbering over four hundred people, singing 'Michigan, My Michigan...'" Notable Pythians over the years have included Louis Armstrong, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William McKinley William Jennings Bryan Hubert H. Humphrey, Lew Wallace, and others. Only one copy of the booklet is listed in OCLC/WorldCat, at the Huntington Library. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor creasing and wear to wrappers, very good. Item number: 286087
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