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Title
View of the Los Angeles County "Garden of Eden" exhibit in Toronto, Canada, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
1928
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of the Los Angeles County "Garden of Eden" exhibit in Toronto, Canada, 1928. At center, two mannequins are staring at each other. A man at left is wearing a leopard-skin loin cloth, while a woman at right is wearing a similar dress. They are leaning on a wall of rocks covered with vines. At their feet, many baskets of fruit are visible, including oranges, apples, and pears. The words "Los Angeles County" appear on a sign near the top of the display.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20437 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-33150
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20437
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-33150.jpg
Subject
Citrus fruit industry
Exhibitions
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture--Crops--Citrus--Exhibitions
Buildings
Time Period
1928
Place
Canada
Toronto
Source
33150 [Accession number]
CHS-33150 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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