Mertie West places flowers at her parents' graves in Forest Lawn Cemetery on Decoration Day, Glendale, 1943

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West places flowers at her parents' graves in Forest Lawn Cemetery on Decoration Day, Glendale, 1943

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

[May 30, 1943]

Date

1943-05-30

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Mertie West placing flowers at her parents' (Abraham and Mary Prickett Whitaker's) graves in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale on Decoration Day. The cemetery grounds sprawl across the entire image. Mertie kneels down in the near distance, left-of-center. She faces towards the camera, but her head is tilted down. Flowers sit on the ground in front of her as she kneels to the right of a row of gravestones. The row of gravestones stretches back on an angle from the lower left corner towards the center of the image. Mertie kneels near the 4th gravestone back. A couple of women stroll through the cemetery in the distance at center. At right, a crypt obscured by trees stands. Trees and flower arrangements dot the cemetery grounds.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2002. Glendale, California, Decoration Day 1943. Forest Lawn Cemetery. Mertie West decorating her parents graves. 2 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.)
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

California--Glendale

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Memorial Day
Flower arrangements
Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Glendale