Typewritten description of photographs of avocados, Los Angeles, 1933

Title: Typewritten description of photographs of avocados, Los Angeles, 1933
Creator: Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966
Date Created: 11/1/33
Date: 1933-11-01
Language: English
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2661 P1 to 7. Calavo - Avacado [sic] Industry Growers of California. 11/1/33. May Betteridge
Text reads: Adelbert Bartlett, 1572 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles. Negative. Miss May Betteridge, newly elected "Queen" of the California calavo-avacado [sic] industry, presiding over a sale of the famous salad fruit in Los Angeles. The largest avacado in foreground is between 4 and 5 inches in height. The varieties shown, which are popular with the trade, are, left to right, Pueblo; Topa Topa; Dickinson; Itzanana; Fuerte; Linscott. (See complete story enclosed.) [Handwritten]: 2661. Exclusive

Genre: typescripts
Names: Betteridge, May Isabelle, 1905-1984
Location: California--Los Angeles
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Avocado industry--California
Avocados--California--Los Angeles
Environment

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: 0276i
uclamss_1300_0276i
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bddtt
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.