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Title: 1952 - Portal of the Folded Wings at Valhalla Memorial Cemetery
Contributor: (Photographer)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: Burbank Public Library
Collection: Around Burbank: Businesses, Homes, and Streets
Rights Information: Burbank Public Library, Burbank in Focus Office
Description: Photo of Valhalla Memorial Rotunda, built in 1924, and renamed the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in 1953. It serves as memorial and burial site for fifteen pioneers of aviation at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. The structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Type: Image
Format: nonprojected graphic
4 x 5 b&w print
Identifier: islandora:342
local: cco00331
Subject: Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)--Cemeteries--1950s--Portal of the Folded Wings--Valhalla Memorial Park--Aviators--Memorials--Historic Places--Aviation--Buildings--Structures
Relation: City Clerk’s Office

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