Woman planting orchids, Los Angeles, [1931?]

Item Overview

Title

Woman planting orchids, Los Angeles, [1931?]

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

[1931?]

Date

1931

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Probably at Armacost & Royston nursery, Los Angeles
Woman wearing smock, holding small planting tools, seated at table indoors, planting small orchid shoots laid on cloth in small flowerpot, with glass, flasks, and more flowerpots in large tray, with edge of window at top left
Negative damaged: adhesive or paper residue at left and right edges
Possibly Mary Watkins. Cf. uclamss_1300_1573

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: 2 2538 P2 2
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2538, 2, Orchids. [1]03B1694 BBEO ORCHIDS 2 The orchid "industry"--interesting photos show why exotic flowers for fair ladies are so expensive. Los Angeles Caounty [sic], Calif.--Photo shows: 2-year-old seedling orchid plants, from 1/4 to 1/2 inch or more in height, being taken from the incubator bottles and planted in a sod of [f?]ern-roots packed in small flower pots. Two or three dozen tiny orchid plants are placed in each pot. [1]03B1694 See also photo 102B1694 ORCHIDS [Struck out in pencil: 103B1694]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Armacost & Royston

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Orchids--California--Los Angeles
Environment