Burlesque Orders and Mock Initiations Library

ISBN 978-90-78156-29-1

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The contents of this collection (in PDF-files):

Baker's Specialties - Initiation Stunts / Beale Cormack, 1922

Best Commencement Stunts and Ceremonies / Marie Irish, 1924

Burlesque and Side Degree Paraphernalia - Ed DeMoulin & Bro, n.d.

Burlesque Paraphernalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes - Ed DeMoulin & Bro, 1930

Easy Initiations : A Collection of Practical Initiation Stunts, for the Club, Lodge, and Fraternity / Louis J. Huber, 1937

The Fellowship Handbook

Fellowship Initiations and Burlesques / Arthur LeRoy Kaser, 1931

Fellowship Drills / Marie Irish, 1931

Fellowship Jokes and Toasts / George A. Posner, 1931

Fellowship Speeches / John H. Arnold, 1931

Fellowship Stunts / Beatrice Plumb and others, 1931

Frazar's Star Chamber : Or Expulsion of a Member for Betraying the Secrets and Passwords of the Order / Douglas Frazar, 1882

The Harmless Spanker - Leaflet Whitehead & Hoag, n.d.

Ideal Drills : A Collection of Entirely New and Original Drills, Marches and Motion Songs / Marguerite W. Morton, 1928

Joining the Lodge : Burlesque Initiation Scene / Frank Dumont, 1904

The Lodge Goat : Goat Rides, Butts and Goat Hairs / James Pettibone, 1902

Making a Sister : A Mock Initiation for Ladies / Epes Withrop Sargent, 1910

Riding the Goat : A Burlesque Initiation / O.E. Young, 1901

Riding the Goat : Secrecy, Masculinity, and Fraternal High Jinks in the United States, 1845–1930 / William D. Moore, 2007

Roped In or the Greatest Thing Out : A Burlesque Ritual for All Organizations / Charles A. Poland, 1905

A Royal Initiation : A Mock Degree in One Act / A.E. Poole, 1915

Sister Masons : A Burlesque in One Act / Frank Dumont, 1924

Ten Easy Acts for Men : A Collection of Quickly Prepared Burlesque Trials, Mock Initiations ... / Arthur Le Roy Kaser, 1930

The Third Degree : A Burlesque Initiation for Women's Societies, Any Order / Mayme Riddle Bitney, 1907

Van Nest's Burlesque Degree : Or Initiation of a Candidate, 1885

Wamsley's Burlesque Lodge Play : Are You a Member?, 1905

Worth's Burlesque Ritual / Edward Worth, 1896

Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus

Ritual and Ceremony of Initiation, n.d.

Ancient Order of Froth Blowers

Booklet, n.d.

Booklet, n.d.

Ancient Order of Hercules

Ritual : A burlesque in two acts, 1888

Ritual : A burlesque in two acts, 1888 (slightly different edition)

Sample Pages of the Ritual and Complete Exposé, 1899

Ancient Order of Knights of Chivalry

A Burlesque Initiation in One Scene, 1906

Arabian Degree Klan

Ritual, 1901

Membership Card, n.d.

Argonauts

Ritual, n.d.

Beneficent Order of Zealous Yahoos

A Coon in the Lodge Room, 1890

Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

Leaflet 'This is what you want : The Trick Box', n.d.

Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo

Ritual, 1946

Ye Corporation o'Squaremen

Ritual of Work, 1987

Ordinances and By-Laws, 1987

Grand and Noble Order of Button Busters

Ritual, 1909

Grand Order of the Orient

Ritual, 1890s

Great Order of the Crusades of Purgatory

Ritual of the Secret Works, n.d.

Improved Order of Red Men

Brown's Burlesque Ritual, 1889

Brown's New Ritual : A Ribcracking Burlesque, 1894

Knights of Athens

Ritual, 1901

Knights of Cerberus

Ritual, 1895

Lodge of Kye Tyes

A Burlesque Initiation, 1904

Military Order of the Cootie of the United States - Veterans of Foreign Wars

Forms and Ceremonies, 1956

Ritual, 1973

Ritual, 1979

Military Order of the Serpent - United Spanish War Veterans

Ritual, 1915

Ritual of the Degree of Kaul, 1922

Ritual of the Degree of Khatapunan, 1937

Consitution and By-Laws of the Supreme Lair, 1933

The History of the Organization of the Military Order of the Serpent / C.W. Yerbury, 1921

Military Order of the Lizard - United Spanish War Veterans

Ritual, 1930

Modern Woodmen of America

Mysteries of Woodcraft : A Mock Initiation, 1900

Munchers of Hard Tack

Ceremonial : Or Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel, 1888

National Sad Sacks - American Veterans

Ceremony of Initiation National Sad Sacks, n.d.

Manual, Constitution and By-Laws and Ceremony of Initiation, 2017

Constitution and By-Laws National Sad Sacks, 2010

Noble but Slightly Dishonounorable Degree of Cork Masonry

Ritual, 1930s

Ritual, n.d.

Order of the Silent Sphinx

Handbook, n.d.

Order of the Sons of Mars

The Curtain Lifted : A Burlesque Initiation Ceremony, 1896

Oriental Order of Humility - Odd Fellows

Ceremony of The Haymakers - or Oriental Order of Humility, 1887

Ritual of the Oriental Order of Humility, 1892

Ritual of the Oriental Order of Humility, n.d.

Order of Goosie Girls

Freemasonry Outdone : A Mock Initiation for All Female Characters in One Scene / Susie B. Pendleton, 1905

Order of the Grand Orient

The Twentieth Century Ritual, 1901

Patrons of Husbandry

Taking the Third Degree in the Grange : A Burlesque in One Act, 1909

Prehistoric Order of Ancient Free-and-Easy Old Bar-Stewards

Ritual, n.d.

Princes of Bagdad

Ritual, 1897

Princes of Iran

Ritual, 1896

Royal Arch Masons

Degree of the Royal Arch Widow, 1978

Royal Order of Jesters

Ritual, 1928

Directory Portland Court No. 29 - By-Laws, 1976

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting National Court Royal Order of Jesters, Chicago, 1955

History of the Royal Order of Jesters National Court, 1979

Royal Order of Supreme Purple Dragons and High Muckymucks

Ceremony of Initiation, n.d.

Secret Political Order of Johnny Cross and the Jesuits

Exposition, 1860

Sons of Osiris

Ritual, 1901

Sublime and Illustrious Order of the Great Tin Spoon

Ritual, 1889

Sublime Order Arabian Knights

Ritual, 1895

Sublime Order of the Knights of the Zoroasters

Ritual, 1897

Ritual, 1897

Tramps

Ritual, n.d.

Uncle Sam's Eagles

Ritual : A Burlesque Side Degree, 1905

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