Margaret Garcia, Lucy Bennett, and an unnamed woman and the Corona display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Margaret Garcia, Lucy Bennett, and an unnamed woman and the Corona display at the National Orange Show, San Bernardino, 1934

Date Created

February 15, 1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

Margaret Garcia, Lucy Bennett, and an unnamed woman and the Corona display at the National Orange Show. Each of the women holds an orange. The display consists of a globe made of oranges and a platform also covered in oranges. The platform bears the name "Corona" and also has swastikas on it. There are signs on the display, one reading, "Do you know that Cuba and the Panama Canal are directly south of Niagara Falls?" and the other reading in part, "Do you [know] Corona, the...is an outstanding landmark for airplanes?"
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Orange King Holds Sway: Governor Opens Annual Show: Many-Hued Exhibits Glisten Amid Snowy Setting in Winter Palace: Los Angeles' Huge Futuristic Tower Holds Attention; Horses in Preview," 16 Feb. 1934: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: National Orange Show 1934
Text from newspaper caption: Orange Show Glitters in Winter Motif: The world's an orange to Corona's Misses Margaret Garcia and Lucy Bennett [Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 1934: A3]

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
Bennett, Lucy
Garcia, Margaret

Location

San Bernardino (Calif.)

Resource type

still image