1995.206.007

This is a very large, olive green scrapbook contain photos and articles about the Masonic Choir of Lowell and its conductor at the time, Ferdinand Lehnert Junior. Many of the pages in the front of the book are in German, as Mr. Lehnert, though he was born in Lawrence on September 9th, 1887, traveled abroad to Germany at a young age to work and study in several art institutions. After he returned from Germany he came back to Lawrence and got involved in several choirs in the city like the Square and Compass Glee Club, until eventually joining the all-boys Masonic Choir in Lowell. He had many successful shows with the Masonic Choir and eventually became its conductor, and was praised up and down by the local newspapers as well as the president of the Masonic Choir, a letter written directly to Mr. Lehnert from this president is actually the first page in the scrapbook. Later in his life, as depicted by several articles near the end of the scrapbook, Mr. Lehnert became a professor at Boston College and would routinely conduct the annual Christmas Festivities Chorus with the Hotel Statler’s employees.

A large, olive green covered book with black trim and accents, and black lettering in the middle of the front cover reading "Scrap Book".

Original pages are brittle, some photo-copied pages accompany the original book