Overview

This collection contains scrapbook material that was apparently never assembled into a scrapbook: photographs, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and letters to and from Gilbert H. Finlay, the Grand Patron of the Order of the East Star for the Kansas state chapter.

Overview This collection contains two scrapbooks that document the service of Augusta, Kansas resident Gilbert H. Finlay as Grand Sentinel and as Worthy Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of Kansas, Order of the Eastern Star. Included are photographs, clippings, and programs from meetings of Kansas chapters attended by him in his official capacities from 1966 to 1969. In accompanying folders are texts of Grand Chapter ceremonies and letters concerning Mr. Finlay's 1989 election to the last degree of...