Image / Mary Lou Carter with the blooming wisteria plant, Sierra Madre, 1936

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Title: Mary Lou Carter with the blooming wisteria plant, Sierra Madre, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 17, 1936
1936-03-17
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
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.
Mary Lou sits at the top of a ladder holding the branch above her head in one hand.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Press to Get Preview of Huge Blooming Vine," Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar 1936: 10.
Newspapers visit Sierra Madre on Newspaper Day to eat and admire the huge wisteria, regardless of rain or shine.
Handwritten on negative: Mary Lou Carter
Text from negative sleeve: 4659 - Mary Lou Carter, great-grand-daughter of Nathaniel Coburn Carter, founder of Sierra Madre. Sierra Madre Wisteria Fete. 4/6/36 [stamped:] Apr 9- 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13865
ark:/21198/zz002j7bnh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Children--California--Sierra Madre
Plants--California--Sierra Madre
Ladders
Carter, Mary Lou, b. 1931 or 32
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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