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. Guests come by 2332 Fourth Avenue, the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Sheets, to view the miniature snow-covered rural landscape surrounding their Christmas tree which was built by Mr. Sheets "to remind easterners in California that we don't have to fight snow like we used to." Photograph appears with the article, "Christmas Tree Scene Popular," Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 1935: A3. The tinseled and lighted tree of the Sheets' home is surrounded at its base by a miniature landscape complete with tiny trees, livestock, houses, a train and lots of snow. Text from negative sleeve: 4245 - Mrs. M. B. Sheets Xmas Tree Box 12 12/26/35 [stamped:] Dec Text from newspaper caption: Friends are still visiting the home of M. B. Sheets to see the reproduction of an eastern countryside in winter without the actual snow, which he constructed as a setting for his Christmas tree. He built it to remind former easterners now living here of their snow-shoveling days during the holiday season back home. Handwritten on negative: 148 148 Xmas Tree - Mrs M. B. Sheets 12/26/35
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13290 ark:/21198/zz002hnfzk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Miniature works Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles
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