Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Related to article, "Masons Get High Honor." Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 1935 The nitrate negative is of a portrait photograph of Samuel E. Burke, a local dentist who was bestowed the highest level of masonry, the Thirty-third Degree. Burke wears a dark suit jacket and what appears to be a masonry pin on his lapel. Text from newspaper caption: The Thirty-third Degree of Scottish Rite Masonry was conferred on Truman Van Dyke, left, and Dr. Samuel E. Burke, Los Angeles Masons, last night at Washington. ["Masons Get High Honor," Los Angeles Times, October 25, 1935] Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2577-- Samuel E. Burke, dentist, mason, 10/20/35, [STAMPED:] OCT 24 1935 Handwritten on photo: Samuel E. Burke
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