Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Names: Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: A blurry photograph of Mertie West standing near 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 stands in the near distance, right-of-center. She faces towards the left and carries something in her hands. Flowers sit on the ground to the left of her. A row of gravestones stretches back on an angle from the lower left corner towards the center of the image. At right, a crypt obscured by trees stands. Trees and flower arrangements dot the cemetery grounds.
Date:: [May 30, 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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.
Date:: [May 30, 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. The cemetery includes the Forest Lawn Museum, which houses fine art exhibits, and the Great Mausoleum.
Date:: March 16, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cornell, Ralph D.
Collection:: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Description:: H. H. West Jr. and other R. O. T. C. cadets march in front of Little Church of the Flowers in Forest Lawn Cemetery. West is in the middle of the group. There are other people standing at the right and left of the image. The church is covered in ivy and surrounded by trees and bushes.
Date:: May 30, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West Jr. (at left) and two others wearing R. O. T. C. uniforms in Forest Lawn Cemetery. West and the boy next to him have their hands behind their backs. They stand on a road with the curb and trees behind them.
Date:: May 30, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, September 10, 1932, Gen. Sherman’s Career Closes, Death Puts End to Labors of Pioneer Developer, Activities Important Factor in Rise of Los Angeles, Funeral Services Will Be Monday at 2 p.m.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, September 10, 1932, Gen. Sherman’s Career Closes, Death Puts End to Labors of Pioneer Developer, Activities Important Factor in Rise of Los Angeles, Funeral Services Will Be Monday at 2 p.m.
Date:: September 12, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 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; Thousands, in silent reverence, filed past the bier where Will Rogers lay beneath a flag of flowers to pay him final honor."
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
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 with the duck pond, heron fountain and Red Cross first aid tent in the background on the right.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, “Mulholland Laid to Rest,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Jul 1935: A1.
Date:: July 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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