Sheikh Khalil Ben El-Raoif comes to America to study at a local high school, Los Angeles, 1936

Title: Sheikh Khalil Ben El-Raoif comes to America to study at a local high school, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created: February 7, 1936
Date: 1936-02-07
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Khalil stands with one hand placed on the back of a chair.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 3559 - Khalil Ben Ibrahime El-Raoif [stamped:] Feb 7- 1936
Text from newspaper caption: Sheik Khahib Ben Ibrahime El Raoif, from Arabia, enrolled at Metropolitan High School.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: El-Raoif, Khalil Ben Ibrahime, b. 1906
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Sheikhs--California--Los Angeles
International students--Saudi Arabian--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_12629
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hmp5m
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