Syrian-Americans celebrate during annual festival at the Riverside Breakfast Club, Riverside, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Syrian-Americans celebrate during annual festival at the Riverside Breakfast Club, Riverside, 1935

Date Created

September 1, 1935

Date

1935-09-01

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Los Angeles Syrian-Americans celebrate at their annual mahrajan at the Riverside Breakfast Club. Tillie Hakin stands on the far left and Mary Simon on the right. Others in the photo are: Dave Bonnesar, Ino Wackeen, and Andra McKennor. They are posed in front of various flags and wear traditional dress. The man on the left plays an oud while the man next to him holds a doumbek (traditional goblet drum) on his knee.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Phoenicians of Biblical lands gather at Picnic," Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep 1935: A2.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2018 --- Tillie Harkin, Mary Simon, Ino Wackeen, Dave Bonnesar, Andra McKennor, Syrian fiesta 9/1/35 [stamped:] SEP 13 1935
Handwritten on negative: Tillie Harkin [sic], Mary Simon, Ino Wackeen, Dave Bonnesar, Andra McKennor 9/1/35

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hakin, Tillie
McKennor, Andra
Simon, Mary
Wackeen, Ino
Bonnesar, Dave Michael, 1902-1963

Location

Riverside (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Syrian Americans
Festivals--California--Riverside