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Title
Otis Art Institute students holding posters that they created for the California Botanic Garden, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued
March 15, 1928
1928-03-15
Publication Information
Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information
US
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of 8 Otis Art Institute students holding posters designed to promote attendance at the California Botanic Garden with award winner Benji Okubo on the left. Each poster has an illustration of trees or plants with the caption "Visit The California Botanic Garden." The students are standing on a lawn in front of a stand of palm and other trees at the Otis Art Institute, then located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd.
This photograph appears with the article "Winners in Garden Poster Contest: Student at Otis Art Institute Awarded First Prize." Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 1928: A1.
The California Botanic Garden in Mandeville Canyon was founded by the businessman and naturalist H. C. Oakley. It opened in 1928. Due to the nature of its financing and the onset of the Great Depression, the garden closed in 1935.
Text from negative sleeve: Otis Art Institute, Show, 1933.
Text from newspaper caption: William Mosteller, Frances Levine, Verena Ruegg, Gloria Wildman, Helen Flaxington, Ryuichi Dohi, and Lila Law and their posters.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2682
ark:/21198/zz002dch1r
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Art students--California--Los Angeles
AIDS (Disease)--Public opinion
Posters
Botanical gardens--California--Los Angeles
Otis Art Institute
Mosteller, William P., 1908-1975
Flaxington, Helen, 1909-2001
Law, Lila
Dohi, Ryuichi Albert 1906-1998
California Botanic Garden (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Okubo, Benji, 1904 - 1975
Ruegg, Verena, 1895-1973
Levine, Frances, 1907-1938
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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