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Sources include photographs and media clips from the LA History Archive as well as the references included below. To add an entry to the timeline, e mail thesocalstudio@gmail.com and include "Evergreen Timeline Entry" in the subject line. Be sure to include as much information on the entry as possible, including reference citations.

Evergreen Cemetery was recently (2009) featured on FM 89.3 KPCC Town Hall Journal. Listen here.
Panoramas of early Evergreen Cemetery from the Tanaka and Toyo Photography Studios.

Sources of Information for this website include:
The California Eagle;
Los Angeles Times;
The Gum Saan Journal;
Rafu Shimpo;
The Star;
Dr. Robert Stahl;
Edwin Carpenter. Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles. (1973);
Steve Goldstein. Beneath Los Angeles.com & LA's Graveside Companion (2008);
The amazing website FindAGrave.com
Googlemaps;
Handout from Evergreen Office;
Map of Evergreen Cemetery.
Leonard & Dale Pitt. Los Angeles A-Z. (1995).
PBS. "Conscience and the Constitution." PBS accessed on November 13, 2009 at http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/the_story/characters/okamoto_kiyoshi.html.

This site was created to provide information on Evergreen Cemetery in East Los Angeles in order to memorialize and acknowledge the histories inside and surrounding this sacred site.

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