California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Drawing of the Tower of Legends at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, ca.1925

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Drawing of the Tower of Legends at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, ca.1925

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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.

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Title Drawing of the Tower of Legends at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, ca.1925

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1925

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1925

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-m5689

Identifier 14156 (accession number), CHS-14156 (call number), CHS-14156 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5718 (legacy record id), chs-m5689 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5808 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5718

Unique identifier UC127552

Legacy Identifier CHS-14156.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.4 in × 19.6 in at 300dpi
39.2 cm × 50.0 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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