Calling cards. Description: F. G. Beatty, P.G.R. Nevada City, California. Card A-K: Name is F.G. Beatty, of Nevada, Cal; On bottom left: Neva Degree Camp No. 6; Union Encampment No. 11, Golden Star Lodge No. 165. Image shows three columns with a chain and a star. From the History Information Station: Object: Five calling cards for, each with different I.O.O.F. insignia. Name "F.G.Beatty"and information on his lodge is identical, but in different order and places on the cards. History: These cards introduced their owner, Frank Beatty of Grass Valley, as a man of good standing in his community. They associated him with a well-known fraternal order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and its good works,especially the orphanages it set up across the country. During the Victorian era social etiquette required that men and woman carry personal calling cards. Visitors would take their cards when paying social calls, and would present them to inform the hosts that they had come.