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Description
4 images. Fire resistant plant (Arcadia), 6 January 1954. Doctor Russell Seibert (Director of County-State Arboretum) John T. McGah (Arboretum Plant Recorder) J.M. Nellis (Arcadia Fire Chief) Gustav Juhren (Forester). Caption slip reads: "Monday. Photographer: Richardson. Date: 1954-01-06. Reporter: Swaim. Assignment: Fire resistant plant, Arcadia. K37: Dr. Russell Seibert, director of County-State Arboretum, left, and John T. McGah, Arboretum plant recorder, watching fire consume brush beneath 'Cystus' (Medit. rock rose), only scorching cystus. (This is 'Laurufolius' variety). K38, L to R: J.M. Nellis, Arcadia fire chief, Dr. Russell Seibert, and John T. McGah watching fire around 'Cystus, 'Ladanifirus' variety. K31-32, L to R: Fire chief J.M. Nellis (Arcadia), John T. McGah, and Dr. Russell Seibert watching fire built around 'Cystus'. (This also is 'Ladanifirus' variety. If uniformed service man is in picture, he is Gustav Juhren, forester, USFS N.F. flood control)."
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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