[Original Photograph]: African-American Grand Courts, Order of Calanthes and Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias
Riverside, California: (July 24, 1927).
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Original black and white landscape photograph. Measuring 33” x 8”. Some overall fading to the bottom margin, about very good. Scarce large photograph of two California African-American fraternal organizations: the Sixth Annual Grand Courts Order of Calanthes (Sisterhood of Women), and Sixteenth Annual Grand Lodge, Order of the Knights of Pythias, taken at Riverside, California in 1927. The large man prominent front and center is presumably J. Allen Reese, Grand Chancellor of the Riverside Order.
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