2014.008.932
Print, Photographic
Black and white prints and negative of Judge Clyde I. Webster, Imperial Potentate of the Detroit branch of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine posed beside another member of the order in front of a Packard Model 30 Series U parked in front of the Shrine Mosque in Springfield, Missouri. Both men are clad in fezes and tuxedos. A sign posted on the side of the automobile reads, "Imperial Potentate... A.A.O.N.M.S. of NA Clyde I. Webster, Moslem Temple ....Detroit Mich." "Model U 1907," is printed across the automobile's windshield, and "[...] Paying for-a-Packard, Why Not Own One," is painted along its side. Other Shriners stand beneath the building's awning in the background.
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