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Title: Boy prunes a small tree, Los angeles County, circa 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa November, 1935]
1935-11
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.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Off-center to the left, an unknown boy stands in profile facing right. He turns his head and smiles to camera as he prunes a small branch from the tree or shrub that grows behind him.
A cropped version of this image appears with the article, "Preserve Your Cut Flowers!," Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: I21
Text from newspaper caption: Most flowers should be cut at a slant with a knife, affording a maximum bared stem surface to take in the water in which the flowers will be kept. [Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 1935: I21]
Handwritten text from negative sleeve: 3296 H + G Flowers (deselected 2 that were variant of H+G "shrubs") JAN 21 1936 stamp
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12221
ark:/21198/zz002h87cz
Subject: Children
Gardening
Gardeners
Horticulture
Pruning
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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