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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A blurry photograph of Mertie West standing near her parents' (Abraham and Mary Prickett Whitaker's) graves in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale on Decoration Day. The cemetery grounds sprawl across the entire image. Mertie stands in the near distance, right-of-center. She faces towards the left and carries something in her hands. Flowers sit on the ground to the left of her. A row of gravestones stretches back on an angle from the lower left corner towards the center of the image. At right, a crypt obscured by trees stands. Trees and flower arrangements dot the cemetery grounds. Text from negative sleeve: 2002. Glendale, California, Decoration Day 1943. Forest Lawn Cemetery. Mertie West decorating her parents graves. 2 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2002_002 ark:/21198/zz002hvp05
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Memorial Day Tombs & sepulchral monuments--California--Glendale Flower arrangements Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.) West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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