Can You Identify This Group?
We need your help gathering information about this photograph! Our records label it “Unknown CZ lodge or organization – early 1900’s Members Picnic.” Can you identify this group of men or their location?
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Photograph detail showing men’s sashes with various symbols.
Photograph detail showing flag or banner.
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Theodore George Tzavaras
appear to be Masonic sashes. There was a lodge in Balboa
robertsprague2013
https://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/redmen.htm
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Mimi Stratford Collins
The locale is interesting, too. Must be construction era?
bkarrer2013
Boy, this is interesting. I have never seen symbols like this in a CZ photo. If you know the name of the donor you may be able to learn if he/she can ID the relative in the photo.. if we can get his name then go to the various tomes with names & pix of members Some of your references will have good lists and if you can give me a name I can check mine to see if they have anything. So, if you let me know the name of the family there is some chance we can perhaps come up with a group to which he belonged. Sure does not look like Masonic group & I am certain it is not of Society of the Chagres group. The town in the background is a major one it would seem with single family housing up on the ridge line… so it is more likely than not to be Culebra, Empire or Gorgona and not San Pablo or flat lands towns. Bob Karrer
Andrés Matos
With some help, I get to know what lodge it is. Symbols may be related to “IORM”, which stands for “Improved Order of Redmen”, the flag has thirteen stars, which means thirteen origin colonies for independence of USA. The abbreviations of the flag (TOTE) stands for “Totem of the Eagle), they are related to “Sons of Liberty”.