"The Mystery of Life" statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, showing a building with a star at its top in the background, Glendale, ca.1920

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Photograph of "The Mystery of Life" statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, showing a building with a star at its top in the background, ca.1920. Stairs lines with thick hedges stand at center foreground with "The Mystery of Life" statue at their top. The statue is draped with shade from the surrounding trees. The top of a tall building can be seen over the tops of the trees in the background. A large star stands at the building's top.

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Title "The Mystery of Life" statue in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, showing a building with a star at its top in the background, Glendale, ca.1920

Subject Cemeteries (lcsh), Forest Lawn Memorial Park (subject), Los Angeles County -- Glendale -- Architecture (file heading), Parks (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Glendale (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1920

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5713

Identifier 44958 (accession number), CHS-44958 (call number), CHS-44958 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5741 (legacy record id), chs-m5713 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-5833 (legacy record id), 84-1-2099 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5741

Unique identifier UC127641

Legacy Identifier CHS-44958.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.2 in × 19.8 in at 300dpi
64.2 cm × 50.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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