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Postmaster-General Farley is initiated into the Breakfast Club at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1934

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Title: Postmaster-General Farley is initiated into the Breakfast Club at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: July 19, 1934
1934-07-19
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Related to the article, "Oratory High at Breakfast Club Meeting. Postmaster-General Hears Artists from Bowl." Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1934: B4.
Postmaster-General Farley sits astride the Los Angeles Breakfast Club's sawhorse labeled "HAM" for initiation into the club on July 19, 1934 at the Ambassador Hotel. He is blindfolded and has placed his right hand on a plate of ham and eggs as part of the initiation rites. Four men surround him; one man holds the plate of ham and eggs, one holds a paper (possibly initiation rites), one man stands smiling, and the last pets the sawhorse.
Text from negative sleeve: Farley, James A. Postmaster.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2267
ark:/21198/zz002dd74w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Clubs--California--Los Angeles
Postmasters--United States
Sawhorses
Initiation rites--California--Los Angeles
Farley, James A. (James Aloysius), 1888-1976
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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