Two boys planting flower seeds at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Item Overview

Title

Two boys planting flower seeds at the Children's Home Society, Los Angeles, 1935-1960

Photographer

Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966

Date Created

[between 1935-1960]

Date

1935/1960

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

The Children's Home Society of California is a non-profit child welfare agency founded in 1891. It became the first licensed child placement agency in California in 1911. It was located at 919 E. 25th St. from the 1920's up to 1942, when the organization moved to the Ozro W. Childs mansion at 3100 W. Adams Blvd. where it remained until 1977.
Photograph of 2 boys seated on the dirt next to a building, each holding a flower seed packet ("Zinnia" on the left), in a flower bed at the Children's Home Society. Two planted rows are identified by stakes with the flower seed packets attached ("Sweet Pea" is on the left). The seeds are from the Los Angeles Seed Co.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2593. Childrens Home. LA. Selected various - Printed stock and magazine sales.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Keywords

Genre

acetate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Children's Home Society of California

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Children--California--Los Angeles
Gardening--California--Los Angeles