US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. At one time Clyde H. Melton of Devine, Texas, headed a $3,500,000 enterprise, but after the depression his business was wrecked and he was left a poor man. Working as an employee of Goodwill Industries, he is attempting to work his way back into economic independence. Clyde holds a teapot standing in front of shelves of Goodwill merchandise. Story related to photograph appears with the article, "Onion King in Comeback," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan 1936: A3. Handwritten on negative: Clyde H Melton Text from negative sleeve: 3557 - CLYDE. H. MELTON Once The World's Bermuda Onion King In the Electric Section of Goodwill? now works there, lost fortune [stamped:] Feb 7 - 1936
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_12621 ark:/21198/zz002hmnw0
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Working class--California--Pasadena Business people--American--California--Pasadena Goodwill Industries of America Melton, Clyde Hawthorne, 1887-1948
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