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Sisters Bernice, Frances, Marjorie, Edith, Evelyn, and Alice Maxson are all members of the Order of the Eastern Star, Baldwin Park, 1936

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Title: Sisters Bernice, Frances, Marjorie, Edith, Evelyn, and Alice Maxson are all members of the Order of the Eastern Star, Baldwin Park, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 4, 1936
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: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Three of the sisters sit while the other three stand behind them. They all wear the same white dress, except for Matron Frances.
The Baldwin Park organization of the Order of the Eastern Star is thought to be the only one in the United States to have a Worthy Matron and five Star Points who are sisters. The sisters are expected to someday take the respective positions of the Worthy Matron.
Photograph appears with the article, "Six Sisters Hold All Chairs at Baldwin Park," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: 5.
Text from newspaper caption: The Worthy Matron and five star points of the Eastern Star lodge at Baldwin Park are sisters. This is believed a record unequalled anywhere in the United States. In the front row, left to right, are Bernice Maxson, Frances Maxson, Worthy Matron, and Marjorie Maxson McIntosh. In rear, Edith Maxson, Evelyn Maxson Hall and Alice Maxson Cota.
Handwritten on negative: LrR - Bernice Maxson, Frances Maxson, Marjorie Maxson McIntosh LtoR, Edith Maxson, Evelyn Maxson Hall Alice Maxson Cota .
Text from negative sleeve: 3515 - L. to R. Bernice Maxson Frances Maxson Marjorie Maxson McIntosh. rear. Edith Maxson Evelyn Maxson Hall Alice Maxson Cota. Worthy Matron and Five star points of eEastern Star in One family. All sisters. 1/23/36
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12513
ark:/21198/zz002hmj5p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fraternal organizations--California--Baldwin Park
Sisters--American--California--Baldwin Park
Cota, Alice Maxson, b. 1906-2003
McIntosh, Marjorie Maxson
Sanchez, Frances Vida Maxson, 1900-1999
Order of the Eastern Star
Hall, Evelyn Mary Maxson, 1910-1996
Maxson, Edith, b. 1908
Maxson, Bernice, b. 1912
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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