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Field Marshal Viscount Allenby plants an olive tree at the Arboretum of Los Angeles County, Arcadia, 1928

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Title: Field Marshal Viscount Allenby plants an olive tree at the Arboretum of Los Angeles County, Arcadia, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: October 12, 1928
1928-10-12
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: Viscount Allenby shovels soil around the olive tree sapling, with a crowd of spectators behind him. The shovel Allenby wields glints in the sun. Dudley S. Corbett stands to the Viscount's left, watching with hat in hand. Reported in "Honors Mark Allenby Visit: Britain's Holy Land Hero and Wife Welcomed," Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 1928: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: Allenby, Viscount.
Type: image
Format: b&w glass negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_b3690_G068
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Tree planting ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Visits of state--British--California--Los Angeles
Corbett, Dudley S., 1880-1946
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount, 1861-1936
Arboretum of Los Angeles County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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