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Members of the Knights Templar raise their swords above the casket of Arthur Letts in the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923

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Title: Members of the Knights Templar raise their swords above the casket of Arthur Letts in the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923
Date Created and/or Issued: [May 21, 1923]
1923-05-21
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.
Arthur Letts founded the Broadway Department Store and was a philanthropist.
In front of the Letts mausoleum (designed in Egyptian Revival style) in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, six members of the Los Angeles Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, raise their swords in an arch above the flower-covered casket of Arthur Letts. Seated mourners observe.
Text from negative sleeve: Letts, Arthur
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10564
ark:/21198/zz002hbjsd
Subject: Egyptian revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Los Angeles
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Knights Templar (Masonic order)
Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Letts, Arthur, 1862-1923
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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