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Crowd gathered to mourn the passing of Arthur Letts at the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923

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Title: Crowd gathered to mourn the passing of Arthur Letts at 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.
Photograph of a crowd gathered to mourn the passing of Arthur Letts at his Egyptian revival style mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Members of the Knight Templar in their white-festooned hats stand at attention around the coffin and a floras swag tops the mausoleum.
Text from newspaper caption: Last Rites for Arthur Letts
Photograph appears with the article, "Multitude Honors Letts. Floral Tributes and Messages of Condolence Received From Every Part of Country," Los Angeles Times, 22 May 1923: II:1.
Handwritten on negative: Letts Funeral
Text from negative sleeve: Letts, Arthur
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10567
ark:/21198/zz002hbjwz
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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