Group portrait of the Kalamazoo Saladin Shriner Club, Michigan
Black-and-white photograph of the Kalamazoo Saladin Shriner Club members. View shows two rows of men: five men seated in the front and four standing in the back. Some of the members have ribbons with text that reads: Committee. Each wear suits and fezes. The text on each hat reads Saladin, and the emblem is of a curved sword above a crescent and star. In the background is a sconce and wainscoting wall paneling at the Park-American Hotel in Kalamazoo, Michigan. According to an article in the Kalamazoo Gazette dated February 15, 1943, the Saladin Temple Shrine club of Kalamazoo (a branch of the Saladin Temple of Grand Rapids, Michigan) hosted an Illustratious Potentate Ball at the Park-American Hotel in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The photograph was taken for the Shrine Club and Orlo Swoap, 3227 Bronson Blvd, Kalamazoo, Michigan.