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Title: Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, Burbank
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
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: Built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, the 75-foot Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is a Spanish/Mission Revival style monument and burial site for 13 pioneers of aviation. It was dedicated in 1953 as a final resting place for pilots, mechanics and other pioneers of flight.
Close-up of the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, which leads into the Valhalla Cemetery in Burbank.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00030794
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Burbank
CARL0000033388
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/96363
Subject: Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Air pilots--Monuments--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Spanish influences
Monuments & memorials--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Cemeteries--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)

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