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Title: Portal of the Folded Wings
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph shows the beautiful Portal of the Folded Wings arch, located at the Valhalla Cemetery, Burbank, which was dedicated on the 50th anniversary of powered flight. Several chairs have been placed in a row, facing the arch and numerous people are visible sitting as well as standing just below the arch. Photograph dated December 17, 1953.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00138210
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d045_f35_i10
CARL0005683276
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/67872
Subject: Valhalla Memorial Park (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Cemeteries--Landscape architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Cemeteries--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Arches--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Spectators--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Women--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Men--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs
Portrait photographs
Group portraits
Time Period: 1951-1960

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