Title supplied by cataloger. Los Angeles National Veterans Cemetery, looking toward Wilshire Boulevard. Originally a 20-acre tract of land, the Los Angeles National Cemetery opened as one of 11 facilities operated by the Veterans Administration on lands shared with national veterans' homes or asylums for disabled soldiers. It was dedicated on May 22, 1889, and through the years has expanded to 114.5 acres. Those interred there are war veterans from the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, and other American conflicts; the number of interments through fiscal year 2006 was 85,160. The Los Angeles National Cemetery is located at 950 South Sepulveda Boulevard and Wilshire Boulevard. View of the United Spanish War Veterans Memorial, also known as the Spirit of '98; a monument made of bright white marble showing three figures, that was completed by sculptor Roger Noble Burnham in 1950. The monument was destroyed during the 1971 earthquake, but was recreated out of concrete and plaster and reinforced with rebar, by sculptor David Wilkens in 1973. The plaque from the original sculpture survived and was imbedded on the new sculpture; it reads: "1898 - To Those Who Volunteered and Extended the hand of Liberty to Alien Peoples - 1902. Erected 1950 by United Spanish War Veterans. Louis Leonard McClary Chairman; Roger Noble Burnham Sculpture."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles National Cemetery Cemeteries--California--Westwood (Los Angeles) Monuments--California--Los Angeles Veterans--United States Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Burnham, Roger Noble,1876-1962
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