Names: Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.) / Subject: Culture - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 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:: A column of mourners lined up to pay their respects to Will Rogers at the ornate iron front gate of Forest Lawn (at 1712 S. Glendale Ave.).
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Funeral of Will Rogers at Forest Lawn with an honor guard of 8 enlisted men from the Seventeenth Attack Group, of General Headquarters, First Wing, March Field, attending the casket, which is draped with a floral American flag. The guard was changed every half hour. A column of mourners behind a rope barrier passes the casket.
Date:: August 22, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Great Mausoleum building, with spire, arched and round windows, statues in arches, on hillside with memorial park, trees, and car in foreground
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Statues in arches on the side of the Great Mausoleum building, with spire in background, hillside, trees, and stairs in foreground
Date:: [1920s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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