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Title: Shriners with straw hats for Straw Hat Day, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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) 825-2251
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, May 4, 1934, Straw Hat Intrudes on Fez. Unable to decide between their loyalty to the fez … or … the straw hat season in Los Angeles, a dozen Shriners … accepted spring bonnets … below, Illustrious Potentate Mattoon …
Eleven men, in suits and ties, waving or holding straw hats, with pillar and curtains in background, in front of sign reading Time for Straw! Illustrious Potentate Everett W. Mattoon stands in front row, 2nd from right.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Shriners, 1934
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: 3072
uclamss_1429_3072
ark:/21198/zz002cmm8j
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Culture
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Al Malaikah Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Mattoon, Everett
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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