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Photographs of the Huntington Desert Garden

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Description
A group of 8 x 10-inch, black-and-white photographs of desert plant specimens in the Huntington Desert Garden, taken approximately 1928-1940 by an unknown photographer. The photographs show agave, aloe, cacti, euphorbia and others, and most have typed labels with species names, country of origin, and descriptive information. Several plants were cultivated from Mexico. This collection also contains two photographs of trees in open fields in Pasadena, a Valley Oak and a Monterey Cypress.
Type
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Production date
approximately 1928-1940
Call number
photCL 473
Provenance
Gift of Rancho Los Alamitos, 1997. The photographs belonged to Ms. Frances L. Cramer, a lecturer in botany at USC, who donated them to Rancho Los Alamitos as part of a larger collection in 1993.
Dimensions
20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Associated people
Lyons, Gary,
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