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Pallbearers carry the coffin of Arthur Letts at the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923

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Title: Pallbearers carry the coffin of Arthur Letts at the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923
Date Created and/or Issued: [May 21, 1923]
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.
Knights Templar stand at attention with raised swords as pallbearers carry the coffin of Arthur Letts at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Bystanders watch from the top of a mausoleum in the background.
Arthur Letts founded the Broadway Department Store and was a philanthropist.
Handwritten on negative: Letts Funeral
Text from negative sleeve: Letts, Arthur
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10565
ark:/21198/zz002hbjtx
Subject: Pallbearers--California--Los Angeles
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Letts, Arthur, 1862-1923
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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