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

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: February 4, 1936
Date: 1936-02-04
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Six Sisters Hold All Chairs at Baldwin Park," Los Angeles Times, 08 Feb 1936: 5.
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.
Caption: 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
Handwritten on negative: LrR - Bernice Maxson, Frances Maxson, Marjorie Maxson McIntosh LtoR, Edith Maxson, Evelyn Maxson Hall Alice Maxson Cota .
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.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Group portraits
Names: Sanchez, Frances Vida Maxson, 1900-1999
McIntosh, Marjorie Maxson
Maxson, Edith, b. 1908
Hall, Evelyn Mary Maxson, 1910-1996
Maxson, Bernice, b. 1912
Cota, Alice Maxson, b. 1906-2003
Order of the Eastern Star
Location: Baldwin Park (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Fraternal organizations--California--Baldwin Park
Sisters--American--California--Baldwin Park

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12513
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmj5p
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