Scarce vintage matte-finish 10 x 8 photo of Henry Ford receiving the 33rd Degree at the Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council for the Scottish Rite's Northern Masonic Jurisdiction at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, in September 1940, signed in the lower border in fountain pen by Henry Ford, John W. Bricker, John A. Rowland, Melvin M. Johnson, and George E. Bushnell. In very fine condition.
At the time he received the 33rd Degree, Henry Ford had been a Mason for 46 years, having been raised in Detroit's Palestine Lodge No. 357 in 1894 at age 31. At the time of the conferral, George E. Bushnell was Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Melvin Johnson was Dean of the Boston University Law School, and John Bricker was Governor of Ohio.
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