Paraphernalia and supplies for subordinate lodges of the Knights of Pythias, in strict accordance with ritualistic requirements ..
An 1894 trade catalogue from Henderson-Ames Co. of Kalamazoo, Michigan, offering regalia and furnishings to subordinate lodges of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order. The pictures are plain black-and-white engravings of ceremonial crowns and carved lodge chairs with upholstered seats and backs, drawn in crisp line and hatching. A designer might take from them the ornate, Gothic-revival and Victorian decorative vocabulary of fraternal regalia, including quatrefoil panels, diamond bands and cusped arches.
