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Grand Council Exclusive Order of the Guinea Pigs, Sty No. 1, Kwajalen, Marshall Islands
Grand Council Exclusive Order of the Guinea Pigs, Sty No. 1, Kwajalen, Marshall Islands
TitleGrand Council Exclusive Order of the Guinea Pigs, Sty No. 1, Kwajalen, Marshall Islands
AuthorUnknown
Date1946
NotesText on document reads: To all loyal Brother Pigs, Greetings: Know ye: that Lauren R. Donaldson, Ph. D. having through an exaggerated sense of patriotism subjected his body to the rigors attendant to atom bombs, hundred foot tidal waves, mermaids, vampires, sandfleas, typhoons, mal-de-mer, cannibals, canned beer, etc. is by this writing accorded full status as a Brother Pig and all brothers are hereby commanded to give him due recognition as same under penalty of being driven from the common trough. Given under my hand this 30th day of May 1946.R. M. Ramsey, Grand Guinea Swine.

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Subjects (LCSH)Fraternal organizations--Marshall Islands--Kwajalein Atoll
Order of the Guinea Pigs--Membership
Jokes
Location DepictedMarshall Islands--Kwajalein Atoll
Digital CollectionLauren R. Donaldson Collection
Order NumberDON0394
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionLauren R. Donaldson Papers. Accession No. 2932-007, Box 20
Object TypeEphemera
Physical Description26.5 x 20 cm.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from an original text using a Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2007.
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