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Jennie Blackburn with her husband Walter Blackburn and his son Ward S. Blackburn, Los Angeles, 1929

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Title: Jennie Blackburn with her husband Walter Blackburn and his son Ward S. Blackburn, Los Angeles, 1929
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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: Ward S. Blackburn in the middle with hands around his step-mother Jennie Blackburn and father Walter Blackburn. They were members of the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, founded by Jenny's daughter May Blackburn, and granddaughter, Ruth Wieland Rizzio, 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_G467
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Cults--California--Los Angeles
Blackburn, Ward Sitton, 1901-1975
Blackburn, Jenny, 1863-1931
Blackburn, Walter, 1859-1942
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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