Section of Lorenzo D. Smith's garden, Los Angeles, 1935

Description: A small house made out of stones with a slanted roof and open door sits in the corner of the garden against high walls with stones arranged in patterns. There are multiple types of cacti planted on either side of a short stepping path.
Photograph appears with the article, "Confessions of a Garden Wall," Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1935: H19.
L.D. Smith's garden (3940 South St. Andrews Place) is surrounded by a cement wall covered in adornments such as jewels, bottles, broken glass, teapot lids, and other miscellaneous objects. Smith was an occupational contractor in the cement and brick industry.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: A sequestered corner along one of the most different of all garden walls; the spineless cactus in the foreground has been grafted with many varieties of cacti.
Text from negative sleeve: 1344 - Garden Wall of L. D. Smith x GARDEN OF Wall - L.D. SMITH [stamped:] Jul 31 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.013262
Latitude: -118.311109
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Gardens--California--Los Angeles
Garden walls--California--Los Angeles
Plasterwork--California--Los Angeles
Cactus--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7820
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dfkhv
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