US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Married couple Jennie Blackburn and Walter Blackburn pose in front of a barrister bookcase. Jennie Blackburn was the mother of May Otis Blackburn, who founded a cult called the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven in the 1920s. The cult was investigated in 1929. Reported in "Pair Describe Death in Oven...," Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 1929: A2, and "Cult "Queen" Tells of Being Chained Two Months to Bed Post...," Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 1929: A2. Text from negative sleeve: Blackburn, Jenny. Cults. 1929
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3694_G466 ark:/21198/z11w16v7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Cults--California--Los Angeles Blackburn, Jennie, 1863-1931 Blackburn, Walter, 1859-1941
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