Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928

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

Description: Photograph of 8 Otis Art Institute students holding posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden with award winner Benji Okubo on the left. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." The students are standing on a lawn in front of a stand of palm and other trees at the Otis Art Institute, then located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
The California Botanic Garden in Mandeville Canyon was founded by the businessman and naturalist H. C. Oakley. It opened in 1928. Due to the nature of its financing and the onset of the Great Depression, the garden closed in 1935.
This photograph appears with the article "Winners in Garden Poster Contest: Student at Otis Art Institute Awarded First Prize." Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1928: A1.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: William Mosteller, Frances Levine, Verena Ruegg, Gloria Wildman, Helen Flaxington, Ryuichi Dohi, and Lila Law and their posters.
Text from negative sleeve: Otis Art Institute, Show, 1933.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Botanical gardens--California--Los Angeles
AIDS (Disease)--Public opinion
Art students--California--Los Angeles
Posters
Names: Flaxington, Helen, 1909-2001
Ruegg, Verena, 1895-1973
Levine, Frances, 1907-1938
California Botanic Garden (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Dohi, Ryuichi Albert 1906-1998
Law, Lila
Mosteller, William P., 1908-1975
Otis Art Institute
Okubo, Benji, 1904 - 1975
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.060375
Latitude: -118.279740
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_2682
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dch1r
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Rights statement: copyrighted
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.