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Description
10 Images. City of Vernon layout, 17 February 1953. Rudy Velasco (gardener) David J. O'Neil (Coast Manager, Carpenter Steel Company) Frances Bonser (U.S. Plywood employee) George Everhart (U.S. Plywood employee) Arthur Maas, Senior (President, Maas-Hensen Steel Corporation) Perry Hansen (Acme Brewing Company, manager) W.E. Alworth (Executive secretary, Vernon Chamber of Commerce). Caption slip reads: "For Sunday? Photographer: Miller. Date: 1953-02-17. Reporter: White. Assignment: Vernon beautification. 7-8: Arthur Maas, Sr., president, Maas-Hansen Steel Corp., in his orchid patio adjoining his office at 2435 E. 37th St., Vernon. Orchids are his hobby he expects some bloom in about a week has many rare ones, often pays $75 for a single plant. Customers and employes [sic] enjoy this patio when plants bloom in their redwood-bound special niche, which is in midst of Vernon's industrial district. 29-30, L to R: Perry Hansen, Acme Brewing Co., manager and W.E. Alworth, executive secty., Vernon Chamber of Commerce, at Acme's fish pond in patio of brewery's Seqouoia Lodge. Brewery is at5 2080 E. 49th St., Vernon. 45-46, L to R: Gardener Rudy Velasco, and David J. O'Neil, Coast Mgr., Carpenter Steel Co., look over sightly lawn at plant, 3009 E. 44th St., Vernon. 11-12, L to R: U.S. Plywood Corp. employes [sic] enjoy tropical planted area at 4480 Pacific Blvd.: Frances Bonser George Everhart Helen Behringer and back of them, Barbara Kneale Bob Weston. 31-32, L to R: Same place as above: Barbara Kneale George Everhart."
Type
image
Format
10 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. image/tiff negatives (photographic) photographs
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