Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. This photograph appears with the article, "Ex-Angeleno Sees World: He Still Likes Early Hobby, M. Franklin Kline Started From City Thirty-five Year Ago on Bike." Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 1935: A1. View of M. Franklin Kline, seated in glasses, collared shirt, tie, jacket, pants, and holding the Official Shippers Guide in lap at the Biltmore Hotel. Franklin Kline was the compiler and editor of the "Official guide for shippers & travellers to the principal ports of the world," a periodical reference book sponsored by the Osaka Mercantile Steamship Company. Kline spent most of his life traveling around the world in order to create the Shippers Guide. Text from newspaper caption: M. Franklin Kline Handwritten on negative: M. Franklin Kline, 9-23-35 Text from negative sleeve: 2202, M. Franklin Kline, 9-23-35, [stamped:] Sep 1935
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_8592 ark:/21198/zz002dgh4n
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No linguistic content
Subject
Travelers--American--California--Los Angeles Guidebooks Periodical editors--California--Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Kline, M. Franklin, (Meyer Franklin), 1881-1964 Ōsaka Shōsen Kabushiki Kaisha
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