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Title: Forest Lawn's Sabina Temple
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
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: Memorial of Ned Doheny at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, also known as the Temple of Santa Sabina. The marble canopy over his sarcophagus came from the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, and was said to have been a sympathy gift from Pope Pius XI. Photograph dated May 3, 1939.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065977
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA B-2331 4x5
CARL0000070978
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2076
Subject: Doheny, Edward L.,--Jr.--Tomb
Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries (Glendale, Calif.)
Sepulchral monuments--California--Glendale
Cemeteries--California--Glendale
Glendale (Calif.)
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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