Art, Symbol & Imagination
Boumi Temple Divan, 1904
A group of men wears elaborate robes, headdresses and insignia in a formal studio arrangement. The printed caption dates the Boumi Temple Divan to 1904 and lists the officers by row.
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Photographer not identified. "Boumi Temple Divan, 1904" [editorial title]. In The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine, Raymond Sidney Tompkins; edited by Whitney W. Jones. Boumi Temple jubilee volume; copyright 1934, undated edition, Boumi Temple. Source scan leaf 56. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0055
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
A historical image from an American fraternal organisation’s commemorative volume. Its theatrical desert imagery reflects the organisation’s period visual language.
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Photographer not identified. Boumi Temple Divan, 1904. The Book of Boumi and Story of the Mystic Shrine. Scan leaf 56. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0493-0055