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

Title: Crowd gathered to mourn the passing of Arthur Letts at the Hollywood Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1923
Date Created: [May 21, 1923]
Date: 1923-05-21
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: 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.
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Letts Funeral
Text from negative sleeve: Letts, Arthur

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Knights Templar (Masonic order)
Hollywood Forever Cemetery (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Letts, Arthur, 1862-1923
Location: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 34.088535
Latitude: -118.317772
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Egyptian revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles
Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Los Angeles
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_10567
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hbjwz
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