Column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at Forest Lawn, Glendale, 1935

Title: Column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at Forest Lawn, Glendale, 1935
Date Created: August 22, 1935
Date: 1935-08-22
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A column of mourners lined up behind a rope guideline to pay tribute to Will Rogers at the entrance to Forest Lawn. A sign on the left reads: "Information, General Offices, Mortuary."
A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1935, with the caption: "World Pays Solemn Homage to Will Rogers in Final Rites at Forest Lawn; As dawn broke thousands had gathered to do homage. Scene shows a long line of mourners assembled at 5:30."
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Will Rogers Funeral 8-22-35
Text from negative sleeve: Will Rogers Funeral, 8/22/35. 1619 NITRATE, 1 of 2. Aug. 27, 1935, 9 negs.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.)
Location: Glendale (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Glendale

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0016
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d96ks
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