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  1. Barn with Marigolds by Patricia M. Bolfing - Photograph

    Barn with Marigolds by Patricia M. Bolfing. Color photograph mounted under glass beneath a white mat with a blue inner border inside a brown stained wooden frame. Engraved brass plaque mounted to glass over bottom center of white mat reads, "FRED GELLERT FOUNDATION / COLLECTION OF SAN MATEO COUNTY SCENES / PATRICIA BOLFING / BARN WITH MARIGOLDS / PRESENTED BY ART-RISE 1986." Image depicts a close-up view of orange marigolds with purple...

    Record Type: Object

    Barn with Marigolds by Patricia M. Bolfing
  2. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940. This is a black and white photograph with ruffled edges of a delivery truck driving down El Camino Real on the way to the airport. The truck is facing away from the camera, and the road is on the left side of the photograph. The truck is stacked high with large flower boxes. Lining the left side of the road is a row of trees. On the right side of the road are telephone poles and a neon s...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  3. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, 1940. This is a black and white photograph of a delivery truck with three workers posed standing on the truck. The truck is stacked high with large flower boxes ready to go to the airport and is parked in front of the long white California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. Alfred Decia is standing on the far right.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  4. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph of a Homer, a driver and packer, standing in the cab of a delivery truck. He is holding a large packing box and behind him stacked in the bed of the truck are more of the packing boxes. The truck is facing the camera and partly underneath a wooden loading dock in the sideyard of the Floral Co.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  5. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with Bart, a packer from the Phillipines who worked for the California Floral Co., holding a very large bunch of chrysanthemums horizontally under his left arm. He is standing and looking at the camera, outside of a white building with a broken wooden shipping pallet in the background.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  6. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with Bart, a packer from the Phillipines who worked for the California Floral Co., holding a large bunch of chrysanthemums in the crooks of each of his arms. The flowers have very large stems (almost half the height of the man). He is facing the camera, standing outside in front of a white building with a broken wooden shipping pallet in the ba...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  7. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph. It shows a California Floral Co. delivery truck with the bed stacked high with large packing boxes ready to go to the airport. Alfred Decia is standing on the middle axle and the driver is sitting in the driver's seat. The truck is parked in front of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City and to the...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  8. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph that shows workers in three rows, sitting, kneeling and standing on the cab of a delivery truck. Most of the workers are holding large bunches of accacias. There are three women and nine men. The truck is parked on a gravel driveway between two buildings. The building on the left is a large unpainted wooden structure and the building on the le...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  9. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph taken across the street from the front of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. The building is a long white building. There are six cars parked in front of the building. There are three people in front of the building, one is standing and the other two are leaning or sitting on one of the cars nea...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  10. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a faded black and white photograph. It shows six people posing in front of the doors of the California Floral Co. building at El Camino Real and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. Above themsign reads, "Wholesale Shipper" and "California's Best". There are three men and three women. Alfred and Virginia Decia are on the far right and the other four individuals are visitors from t...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  11. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph with ruffled edges of a large field of gladiola flowers off of Woodside Road in Redwood City that California Floral Co. purchased flowers from. In the distance surrounded by the field that looks to be a warehouse. There is a white car parked in front of the building.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  12. California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a black and white photograph of a Homer, a driver and packer, standing in the cab of a delivery truck. He is holding a large packing box and behind him stacked in the bed of the truck are more of the packing boxes. The truck is facing the camera and partly underneath a wooden loading dock in the sideyard of the Floral Co.

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  13. Celebrity Marlene Dietrich at San Francisco Internationaol Airport, September 24, 1964 - Negative

    Celebrity Marlene Dietrich at San Francisco Internationaol Airport, September 24, 1964. Black and white photo negative of Marlene Dietrich at press conference at San Francisco International Airport. Part of a series ...

    Record Type: Photo

    Celebrity Marlene Dietrich at San Francisco Internationaol Airport, Septemb
  14. Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961 - Negative

    Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961. Black and white negative shows two workers with a flower shipment on an American Airlines airplane at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Boxes of flowers are stacked on a raised forklift, with the boxes just outside of the airplane's cargo hold. "AIRfreight" is painted on the side of the airplane under the cockpit. A man in work clothes operates the forklift from the tarmac below. Next to him is a secon...

    Record Type: Photo

    Flower Shipment from SFO, 1961
  15. Framed Color Poster, Sunset Magazine March 1969, c. 1969-2000 - Poster

    Framed Color Poster, Sunset Magazine March 1969, c. 1969-2000. Poster of original magazine cover art that was printed at a later date and displayed in the Sunset Magazine offices. Offset lithograph of a color photograph on paper. The image shows a large flower with yellow petals and a bee on the flower's greenish-gray center. The flower is visible near center on the page with petals from similar flowers visible around the sides of the composition...

    Record Type: Object

    Framed Sunset Magazine Poster
  16. Framed Color Poster, Sunset Magazine March 1969, c. 1969-2000 - Poster

    Framed Color Poster, Sunset Magazine March 1969, c. 1969-2000. Poster of original magazine cover art that was printed at a later date and displayed in the Sunset Magazine offices. Offset lithograph of a color photograph on paper. The image shows a large flower with yellow petals and a bee on the flower's greenish-gray center. The flower is visible near center on the page with petals from similar flowers visible around the sides of the composition...

    Record Type: Object

    Framed Sunset Magazine Poster
  17. Handmade Rag Area Rug, 1850 - Rug, Area

    Handmade Rag Area Rug, 1850. Colored rag strips are of various fibers, possibly including wool, cotton and linen. Rag strips are woven through a burlap backing. Pattern is of alternating dark and light brown colored diamonds with a pattern of two same-colored flowers and one different-colored flower in the center with green leaves at points of longest ends of diamond. Long end of diamond pattern runs along the long width of the rug with short...

    Record Type: Object

    Handwoven Rag Area Rug, 1850
  18. McLellan Copper Medal, 1975 - Medal, Prize

    McLellan Copper Medal, 1975. Copper medal awarded by Wellorchideen-Konfernz (Orchid Conference), Frankfurt, Germany to Rod McLellan Company. Obverse features a stylized palm design at center in relief with inscription on circumference, "Palmengarten Frankfurt Main" and reverse features a stylized orchid design in relief at center with inscription on circumference, "8. Weltorchideen Konferenz 1975". Housing incudes a white plastic case with blue ...

    Record Type: Object

    McLellan Copper Medal, 1975
  19. McLellan's 50th Year Pamphlet, 1945 - Pamphlet

    McLellan's 50th Year Pamphlet, 1945. Color pamphlet celebrates the 50th year of the E. W. McLellan Company. The cover shows Roderick, Edgar and Wakeman McLellan standing in front of a striped aircraft wing with "NC59488" painted on the side. The contents includes a short history of the family business, color photographs of featured flowers, a monthly flower guide, descriptions of the company nurseries and offices in San Francisco, innovations in ...

    Record Type: Archive

    McLellan's 50th Year Pamphlet, 1945
  20. McLellan Second World Orchid Conference Award for Best Cypripedium, Hawaii 1957 - Trophy

    McLellan Second World Orchid Conference Award for Best Cypripedium, Hawaii 1957. Silver pitcher with handle in a tall cylindrical shape with engraved text denotiing award for best Chypridium to Rod McLellan Co..

    Record Type: Object

    McLellan Second World Orchid Conference Award for Best Cypripedium, Hawaii 1957
  21. McLellan Vistitor Register, 1946-1954 - Register

    McLellan Vistitor Register, 1946-1954. McLellan vistitor register features a brown leather hardbound book with gold embossing of dates on cover with interior paper pages showing printed columns and hand filled entries in ink of visitors' names and dates of visit (displayed open to pages for 1948).

    Record Type: Archive

    McLellan Vistitor Register, 1946-1954
  22. Packing house of California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This shows the owners and workers posed in front of the entrance to the California Floral Co building at El Camino and 5th Avenue in Redwood City. From left to right sitting on chairs in the front row are: Alma Dalpogetto (secretary), Virginia Decia and Edna Rosetto (Arcongeli) (secretary); standing in the back row, from left to right are: Alfred Decia, Fritz, the unnamed accountant...

    Record Type: Photo

    California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945
  23. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph of the interior of the packing shed. It is a long open-structure with a wooden floor and wooden support beams in the center. Along the sides of the building are supplies and boxes. On the left wall is a sliding loading door and on the right wall is a white room that looks like it is cold storage for flowers. There are ten workers in the packing sh...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., c. 1935-1945
  24. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph pasted on black cardboard. There are nine workers busy packing flowers into flower boxes. There are calla lillies in white buckets to the left of the photograph and piles of foliage and cellophane bags. From left to right are: Virginia Decia, unidentified worker, Edna Rosetto, unidentified worker, Gerald Brown, Alfred Decia, Fritz, Osc...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 193
  25. Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945 - Print, Photographic

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 1935-1945. This is a sepia photograph. It shows the interior of the packing house. There are nine workers busy packing flowers into flower boxes. There are calla lillies in white buckets to the left of the photograph and piles of foliage and cellophane bags. From left to right are: Virginia Decia, unidentified worker, Edna Rosetto, unidentified worker, Gerald Brown, Alfr...

    Record Type: Photo

    Packing shed of the California Floral Co., Redwood City, Photograph, c. 193

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