LA Shrine convention card found on EBay

Posted on September 5, 2008 by lmharnisch


1907 Shriner convention postcard

 This postcard now listed on EBay is one of the many souvenirs from the Shriners’ 1907 national convention, which was held in Los Angeles. This gathering also generated pins, fans, postcards, plates, cups, goblets and items too numerous to mention, as the auctioneers used to say. 

Shriners die in train wreck
Shriner pin
Although the Shriners apparently had a grand time in Los Angeles, the
convention ended tragically when nearly 30 of them died in a horrible train
wreck on the way home.




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