Riverside display at the National Orange Show, San Bernarndino, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Riverside display at the National Orange Show, San Bernarndino, 1933

Date Created

[circa February 1933]

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Orange King on Throne: San Bernardino Show Opens: Twenty-third Annual Exhibit Honors Woman Founder of Great Industry: Lieut.-Gov. Merriam and Other Leaders of State at Ceremonies," 17 Feb. 1933: 1.
The Riverside display at the National Orange Show. There is a sign on the display reading, "Riverside, Home of the parent navel orange tree. 60 years ago Mrs. Tibbets planted the first navel orange tree at Riverside California." There is a mannequin representing Mrs. Tibbets, which is holding a gardening tool. The base of the display is covered in oranges and images of (most likely) Riverside. Other displays are visible running the length of the walls.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: National Orange Show 1933
Text from newspaper caption: Annual Orange Show Opening Attracts Throng: Model of Mrs. Tibbetts Tending Trees She Planted Sixty Years Ago [Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 1933: 6]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Subjects

Oranges--California--San Bernardino
Citrus fruit industry--California--San Bernardino
Agricultural exhibits--California--San Bernardino

Names

National Orange Show

Location

San Bernardino (Calif.)

Resource type

still image