Mourners at the iron gate of Forest Lawn waiting to pay their respects to Will Rogers, Glendale, 1935

Title: Mourners at the iron gate of Forest Lawn waiting to pay their respects to Will Rogers, Glendale, 1935
Date Created: August 22, 1935
Date: 1935-08-22
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: A column of mourners lined up to pay their respects to Will Rogers at the ornate iron front gate of Forest Lawn (at 1712 S. Glendale Ave.).
A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, 8/23/1935, with the caption: "World Pays Solemn Homage to Will Rogers in Final Rites at Forest Lawn; As dawn broke thousands had gathered to do homage. Scene shows a long line of mourners assembled at 5:30."
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Will Rogers Funeral, 8-22-35
Text from negative sleeve: Will Rogers Funeral, 8/22/35. 1619 NITRATE, 1 of 2. Aug. 27, 1935, 9 negs.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Rogers, Will, 1879-1935
Forest Lawn--Glendale (Cemetery : Glendale, Calif.)
Location: Glendale (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.125057
Latitude: -118.252671
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Culture
People
Funeral rites & ceremonies--California--Glendale
Events

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0020
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d96qv
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