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Title
"The Mystery of Life" statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of "The Mystery of Life" statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, ca.1920. "The Mystery of Life" is etched into the stone at the base of the statue with "Forest Lawn Memorial Park" above it at right. The statue depicts many people at different stages of life. The trees in the background cast heavy shadows over the solemn figures.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5711
USC-2-1-1-5832 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-44959
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5711
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-44959.jpg
Subject
Cemeteries
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Los Angeles County--Glendale--Architecture
Parks
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
Glendale
Los Angeles
USA
Source
44959 [Accession number]
84-1-2098 [Microfiche number]
CHS-44959 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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