Lorenzo D. Smith works on his garden wall, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Lorenzo D. Smith works on his garden wall, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

1935

Date

1935

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Confessions of a Garden Wall," Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1935: H19.
"Smithy" leans on his knees applying cement from a pail to the wall. His section of the wall is covered by rocks and stones of different shapes and sizes.
L.D. Smith's garden 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: Smithy adds another knick-knack to his wall of bottles, glass and jewels.
Text from negative sleeve: 1344 - Garden Wall of L. D. Smith x GARDEN OF Wall - L.D. SMITH [stamped:] Jul 31 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Smith, Lorenzo Dillison, b. 1860 or 61-1937

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.013262

Latitude

-118.311109

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pails
Garden walls--California--Los Angeles
Plasterwork--California--Los Angeles