Resource Type: still image / Subject: Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the grave site for Thornton Chase, first American convert to the Baha'i Faith, in Inglewood Cemetery. The tombstone lies at center and is viewed at an angle, close up. The large tombstone lies flat over the ground. Some small bouquets of flowers lie atop it and on the ground surrounding it. The inscription on the tombstone reads, "'THIS IS THE ILLUMINED RESTING PLACE OF THE HOLY SOUL THORNTON CHASE WHO IS SHINING IN THE HORIZON OF ETERNAL LIFE EVER LIKE A STAR.' ABDUL, BAHA 1847 1912." Beyond Chase's grave, tombstones and trees dot the cemetery grounds in the distance.
Date:: July, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of the grave site for Thornton Chase, first American convert to the Baha'i Faith, in Inglewood Cemetery. The tombstone lies in the near distance at center and is viewed at an angle. The large tombstone lies flat over the ground. Some small bouquets of flowers lie atop it. A cemetery drive passes horizontally behind the tombstone. Beyond the drive, tombstones and trees dot the cemetery grounds.
Date:: July, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West standing in Evergreen Cemetery and looking at the tomb of George M. West and Wilhelmina Lemberger West on Decoration Day. Gravestones stand in a row that stretches back towards center from the lower right corner. Mertie stands behind (or to the left) of the third gravestone back. She faces towards the left and tilts her head down slightly. On the ground in front (or to the left) of her, flowers are arranged in front of the West's gravestone. It stands solitary in the near distance at left. Gravestones and trees cover the cemetery grounds that extend into the distance.
Date:: [May 30, 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Clark’s casket, covered in flowers, is wheeled to the family mausoleum in the middle of a pond at the Hollywood Cemetery.
Date:: May 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Arthur Letts founded the Broadway Department Store and was a philanthropist.
Date:: [May 21, 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Date on negative sleeve is incorrect, as is attribution to William Andrews Clark, Jr., who died in 1934. Corresponding negatives refer to the death of his son, William Andrews Clark III, in 1932.
Date:: May 18, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: 92-year-old John Eaton, along with 97-year-old Thomas Carter, are the only surviving veterans of the original 200 members of the John A. Martin Post, G.A.R. The Civil War post is to be disbanded.
Date:: December 11, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Arthur Letts founded the Broadway Department Store and was a philanthropist.
Date:: [May 21, 1923]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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