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. Marguerite is obscured from the shoulders down by clusters of poinsettias. Photograph appears with the article, "Ventura Sends Flowers as 'Times' Plant Visited," Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan 1936: A2. Hundreds of brilliant poinsettias were placed in The Times lobby, arranged by Ventura's Park Superintendent Perley. Many of the flowers were more than 14 inches across. Text from newspaper caption: Poinsettias, Ventura's official flower, decorated the base of the globe in The Times lobby yesterday when hundreds from that city toured the new Times plant. Marguerite Clark, one of the visitors, is shown in a display of the poinsettias. Times photo Text from negative sleeve: 5100 - Miss Marguerite Clark Clark one of Ventura residents visiting Times bldg. (lobby decorated w/ pointsettias, Ventura's official flower) <- sent by Ventura ahead of visit [stamped:] May 1-1936 Handwritten on negative: Marguerite Clark
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14206 ark:/21198/zz002j7rdp
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Poinsettias--California--Los Angeles Lobbies--California--Los Angeles Clark, Marguerite Roberta, 1917-1993
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