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Title: Passport of Khalil Ben El-Raoif, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: February 7, 1936
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
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Arabia Sets New Goals," Los Angeles Times, 07 Feb 1936: A10.
The Sheikh of Borayda has come to America to study electricity, engineering, automobiles, radios and other developments while he studies as a student at a Los Angeles high school.
The passport shows a picture of El-Raoif with descriptions such as his country of birth, date of birth, steamship, and nationality.
Text from negative sleeve: 3559 - Khalil Ben Ibrahime El-Raoif [stamped:] Feb 7- 1936
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12630
ark:/21198/zz002hmp64
Language: English
Subject: International students--Saudi Arabian--California--Los Angeles
Sheikhs--California--Los Angeles
El-Raoif, Khalil Ben Ibrahime, b. 1906
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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