Typewritten document describing photographs of shipments of Easter lilies from Los Angeles, 1931

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten document describing photographs of shipments of Easter lilies from Los Angeles, 1931

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

1931

Date

1931

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Images described in document not in digital collection

Caption

Text reads in part: Bartlett. 500,000 Easter lillies start moving from one Los Angeles greenhouse to flower stores of Pacific Coast, Mid-West and Eastern States. ... The greenhouse where these views were made, that of Armacost and Royston, has its own aviation landing field ... View shows girls delivering package of lillies, gift of high school girls to the Jane Addams settlement in Chicago, to Boy [sic] Lloyd, flyer at the nursery ...
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: Bartlett 1048 - 1049 - 1050 1051 - 1052 - 1053 Easter Lillies. Easter Lillies, Los Angeles nursery, where 500,000, a million dollars worth of these blooms are coming into full flowering for the Easter trade. Girls, left to right, loading flowers into truck - Rosine McDougall, Grace Wilkiemeyer, Marjorie Franklin. Closeup, one girl, with flowers, Rosine McDougall. Closeup, one girl, with Bob Lloyd (aviator), Grace Wilkiemeyer.

Physical Description

Extent

1 p.

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Names

Hull House Association
Lloyd, Bob, fl. 1923-1931

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Air pilots--California--Los Angeles
Easter lily--California--Los Angeles
Florist suppliers--California--Los Angeles
Transportation
Economy