Image / Illustrious Potentate Lafayette S. Rounsavelle on camel, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1935

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Title: Illustrious Potentate Lafayette S. Rounsavelle on camel, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 20, 1935
1935-10-20
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 article, "Shrine's Arabian Nights Show Fills Coliseum." Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 1935
Illustrious Potentate L.S. (Lafayette S.) Rounsavelle rides atop a camel led by a shrine member. The Al Malaikah Temple fraternal organization hosted an Arabian Nights-themed costume pageant at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Handwritten on nitrate negative: Shrine Potentate Rounsevelle [sic] on camel, 10-20-35
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2650-- Shrine Circus, 10-20-35, [stamped:] 10-20-35
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_9164
ark:/21198/zz002dh5v4
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fraternal Organizations--California--Los Angeles
Camels--California--Los Angeles
Pageants--California--Los Angeles
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Al Malaikah Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Rounsavelle, L. S
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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