Agave plants in bloom in Olive Percival's Arroyo Seco garden, Los Angeles, 1900-1944
Item Overview
- Title
- Agave plants in bloom in Olive Percival's Arroyo Seco garden, Los Angeles, 1900-1944
- Photographer
- Percival, Olive, 1869-1945
- Date Created
- [between 1900-1944]
- Date
- 1900/1945
- Collection
- Olive Percival papers, circa 1869-1948
Notes
- Description
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In Olive Percival's article describing the process of creating her garden, "The Down-Hyl Claim. I - The Garden," in the June 1913 issue of House Beautiful, she states that the property had a few large trees and some cacti when she purchased the property.
Olive Percival's home, Down-hyl Claim, was located in the Arroyo Seco area of north-east Los Angeles, at 522 San Pascual Avenue.
Photograph of a tall, flowering agave (century plant) and a cactus in Olive Percival's Arroyo Seco garden with a tall tree behind it. - Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: Yard and Garden
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
black-and-white photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Location
- California--Los Angeles--Arroyo Seco
- Longitude
- 34.116540
- Latitude
- -118.174073
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Agaves--California--Los Angeles
Gardens--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h2tg1
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- unknown
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.