Otis Art Institute students with posters created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

Title: Otis Art Institute students with posters created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created: March 15, 1928
Date: 1928-03-15
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The California Botanic Garden in Mandeville Canyon opened in 1928. The garden closed in 1935 due to financial difficulties brought on by the Great Depression.
Reported in "Winners in Garden Poster Contest: Student at Otis Art Institute Awarded First Prize." Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1928: A1.
Eight Otis art students hold posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." They are grouped in front of a 15 foot high granite the granite replica of the Los Angeles Times Building on the grounds of the Otis Art Institute, then located at the former home of it benefactor, Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis (2401 Wilshire Blvd.).
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Otis Art Students standing in front of replica of 2nd Bldg bombed in 1910. Otis students.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Otis Art Institute
California Botanic Garden (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Times Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.060375
Latitude: -118.279740
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Art students--California--Los Angeles
Botanical gardens--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_2702
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dchq3
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