Specimen of ice plant (Mesembryanthemum equilateral), ca.1920 (CHS-5453)

Specimen of ice plant (Mesembryanthemum equilateral), ca.1920
Photograph of a specimen of ice plant (Mesembryanthemum equilateral), ca.1920. The stalk of the plant stretches from the lower right to the upper left of the image, its blossoms looking ragged and wrinkled. Pictured on a dark background. "A succulent Old World plant of the carpetweed family, having thick leaves covered with thin, glistening cells that look like ice crystals." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5453
Filename: CHS-5453
Subject (file heading): Botany -- Flowers -- Assorted
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Format: glass plate negatives
Microfiche number: 1-82-191
Archival file: chs_Volume99/CHS-5453.tiff
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass plate negative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Project: USC
Accession number: 5453
Repository email: [email protected]
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1920
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Legacy record ID: chs-m17385; USC-1-1-1-14212
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Coverage date: circa 1920
Subject (lcsh): Flowers