This article attempts to reconstruct the historical circumstances surrounding the creation of a single museum photograph and to provide the historical context necessary for its interpretation. The study draws upon four groups of historical sources: artifacts preserved in the Museum of the History of the American Knights Templar (Houston, USA), published documentary collections, contemporary periodical publications, and reference works.
Based on museum artifacts introduced into scholarly circulation for the first time, this study examines the history of the emergence of ribbons in the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States of America. The source base of the study consists of exhibits from the Museum of the History of the American Knights Templar, Houston, USA.
