Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Reported in the article, "This Most Decorated Man. Fourteen governments have placed medals of honor upon his breast. He is a simple private citizen. He's lived in Los Angeles for fifty years," Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 1934: H6. Medals belonging to impresario L. E. Behymer. The medals include: (1) The Dutch Order of Officer of Orange-Nassau, (2) The Serbian Order of St. Sava, (3) Italian Order of the Crown, (4) French Officer of the Palms, (5) Grecian Order of the Redeemer, (6) Medallion, German Artistic Service, (7) Russian Order of St. Vladimer, (8) Silver Palms of Order of Leopold, Belgium, (9) Russian Order of St. Stanislas, (10) Golden Palms of the Order of Leopold Leopold, Belgium, and (11) Order of Danilo, Montenegro. Photograph of the medals of L. E. Behymer arranged in 2 rows on a carpet. Handwritten on negative: Behymer Medals
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_1096 ark:/21198/zz002dbgx8
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Subject
Impresarios--California--Los Angeles Medals Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth
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