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[Third Annual Bonsai Festival at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California, September 17, 1968]
[Third Annual Bonsai Festival at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California, September 17, 1968]
[Third Annual Bonsai Festival at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California, September 17, 1968]

[Third Annual Bonsai Festival at Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California, September 17, 1968]

Maker (1895 - 1979)
Date1968
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1031
Description1 negative : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, September 19, 1968, English and Japanese sections.;Clair White of the Santa Anita Bonsai Society examines a bonsai created by the Society for the Third Annual Bonsai Festival to be held September 28-29 at Descanso Gardens in La Canada, California, September 17, 1968. Older Caucasian man in eyeglasses and sweater sits on table as he touches top one of three bonsai plants at right; small one in center. Mrs. Judge Smith of the Descanso Garden Guild, the festival sponsor, stands in center next to Mrs. Khan Komai, wife of Society president, who holds a tiny potted bonsai in her hands at right. Circular lanterns hang under pagoda roof in background.

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