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Description
Press photograph showing an initiation ceremony of the Los Angeles Ku Klux Klan chapter. Standing robed figures surround a group of kneeling men in front of a table in the center, atop which is an electric cross, with a bible in front of it. Label on reverse states that after the picture was taken, the photographer was blindfolded and taken from the location Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Still image Title from label caption on verso "Photo by "International" / 879 Los Angeles Bureau"--verso Los Angeles, California :, "International", Los Angeles Bureau Photograph by "International"
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black and white ; 17 x 24 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3114359h
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Secret societies--Rituals Photographs Secret societies Initiations (into trades, societies, etc.) Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) Los Angeles (California)
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