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Title
Woman's Club of Orange Flower Show, Dittmer's Mission Pharmacy float, Orange, California, 1917
Creator
Dittmer, Adolph, Sr
Date Created and/or Issued
1917-04-18
Publication Information
Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution
Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection
Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information
For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description
Dittmer's Mission Pharmacy float for the Woman's Club Flower Show held in Orange, California on April 18, 1917. The photograph is taken outside the Dittmer family home at 176 South Lemon Street. Arthur Dittmer is standing beside a donkey pulling a cart with "PHARMACY" painted on a cloth frame on the side. On the cart is an approximately eight-foot pharmacist's mortar and pestle entirely covered with flowers and labelled "Dittmer's." Streetcar tracks are visible in foreground.
Photographic print
B&w
11.5 x 17.2 cm.
Type
image
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4r29p5tg
P279
10512151
Language
English
Subject
Parades & processions--Orange (Calif.)
Floats (Parades)
Flower shows
Dittmer's Mission Pharmacy--Orange (Calif.)
Women's Club--Orange (Calif.)
Dittmer, Arthur

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