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Bel-Air Publishers, Louisville, Kentucky [Published Date: 1988]. Hardcover, 343 pp. First Edition.
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In very good condition/ NO dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering and palm tree on front cover. light bumping to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white pictures and illustrations throughout. A Pictorial history of the Shrine at its 100th anniversary. Contents include: PROLOGUE: The mythic origin of the Shrine and the unusual advent of the Temple; INTRODUCTION: The Officers and their duties: Divan Trustees, Imperial Representatives, How a Shrine Year is organized; PART I - 1888-1907: From Founding to completion of the First Temple. The first Patrol. PART II - 1908-1920: Period of the First Temple to its destruction. Al Malaikah's first Imperial Potentate. More Units and Start of Shrine Clubs. PART III - 1921-1960: Renaissance I: Rebuilding the Temple to Al Malaikah's emergence as 'Number One' in international membership. The Temple's second and Third Imperial Potentates. Shriners Hospitals: Al Malaikah and the building of the Hospital in Los Angeles; special roles of the Ladies. PART IV - 1961-1988: The readjusting culture: From the 1960's to start of the Second Century. The controversy over jurisdiction. Renaissance II. Al Malaikah's fourth Imperial Potentate. Masonic relations.The Centennial. APPENDIX: The Twelve Temples chartered on June 25, 1888. Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children: Statistics; the Hospitals, pictured. Al Malaikah's ninety Illustrious Potentates. Al Malaikah Temple organization in the Centennial Year. Rare group photographs of conference of Past Potentates, 1966 and 1982. The great Temple organ. Four of Al Malaikah's renowned religious leaders. Historic Shrine neighbors: the University of Southern California and the Olympic Games. Early day Imperial Shrine communications. The Royal Order of Jesters. Outlook for the Future, as seen by the President of U.S.C. Early day Los Angeles, pictured. Directors of the Temple. Koppers and the Keystone Kops. The Temple office. Born in 1888: Temple and Noble share the Centennial birthweek. INDEX: The Sentimental Journey publications group. THE NOBILITY: Individual photographs of Al Malaikahans In the Temple's hundredth year.