Image / Gabor De Bessenyey, chancellor of Inter-Oceanic University, Los Angeles, 1935

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Title: Gabor De Bessenyey, chancellor of Inter-Oceanic University, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [1935]
1935
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Possibly related to the article, "POLICE HUNT 'CRUISE' HEAD: Warrants Issued for Suspect Promoter, Facing Theft Charge, Found to Have Left Hotels POLICE SEEKING CRUISE LEADER," Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 1935: A1.
Portrait photograph of Gabor De Bessenyey, the chancellor of the floating campus, Inter-Oceanic University. Forty students enrolled in the university were to sail on E.L. Doheny's yacht, Caslana, for a 10-month world tour. De Bessenyey resigned from his position on August 6, 1935 amidst a grand theft investigation of the university president, David Graham Fischer.
Handwritten on negative: Seber de Bessenyey.
Text from negative sleeve: 1439 -- Seber de Bessenyey, no dope, [stamped:] Aug 8_ 1935.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7970
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Language: No linguistic content
Subject: College administrators
De Bessenyey, Gabor, 1897-1972
Inter-Oceanic University Administration
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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