Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Vendors wrap up flowers for customers at the flower market, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa September, 1935]

Date

1935-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Two vendors stand in the foreground as they wrap flowers up for customers at the flower market. The vendor nearer to camera stands at left and looks down towards a stack of newspapers in front of him. Behind and to the right of him, another vendor wraps flowers in newsprint as he looks to the right. A large pile of cut flowers sits atop a table in the lower right corner. Beyond the vendors, a thick crowd of customers fills the rest of the market space.
A photograph of the same flower vendor appears with the caption, "Typical Flower Men like this will greet you in the early morning hours if you visit the block-long flower market that thrives in downtown Los Angeles. This area plays a stellar role in the Southland's $3,800,00 cut flower business; but always growers are looking out for plant pests and an agricultural inspector attends every market session!," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 1935: G24
A similar photograph featuring the same flower vendor appears with the article, "Give Your Trees a Bath!," Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 1935: G24

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 3296 Flower Mart JAN 21 1936 stamp

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Downtown (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Markets--California--Los Angeles
Asian Americans--California--Los Angeles
Flowers--California--Los Angeles
Consumers--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles