Art, Symbol & Imagination
Knickerbocker Cottage, New York
A multi-storey building with an open central entrance stands behind trees and a street frontage. The caption names Knickerbocker Cottage at Sixth Avenue near Twenty-Eighth Street, where the book places the conception of the Mystic Shrine.
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Photographer not identified. "Knickerbocker Cottage, New York" [editorial title]. In The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine, Raymond Sidney Tompkins; edited by Whitney W. Jones. Boumi Temple jubilee volume; copyright 1934, undated edition, Boumi Temple. Source scan leaf 17. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0016
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical image from an American fraternal organisation’s commemorative volume. Its theatrical desert imagery reflects the organisation’s period visual language.
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Photographer not identified. Knickerbocker Cottage, New York. The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine. Scan leaf 17. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0016