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Title
Drawing of the Tower of Legends at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, ca.1925
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1925
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 a drawing of the Tower of Legends at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, ca.1925. The massive tower is at center. It is a tall, hexagonal structure with a small wooden door at its base and carvings of people near the top. Two large globes flank the door, and a wide staircase leads to the entrance from the base of a hill in the foreground. The stairs are bordered by several large bushes.
The Tower of Legends in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, was built in 1924 and torn down April 20, 1948. It was 87 feet high.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
13 x 10 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m5689
USC-0-1-1-5808 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14156
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5689
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14156.jpg
Subject
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Los Angeles County--Glendale--Architecture
Monuments
Time Period
circa 1925
Place
California
Glendale
Los Angeles
USA
Source
14156 [Accession number]
CHS-14156 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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