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La Mortola botanical garden, view of two men walking down a road with a horse-drawn wagon, Ventimiglia, Italy, 1929

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Title: La Mortola botanical garden, view of two men walking down a road with a horse-drawn wagon, Ventimiglia, Italy, 1929
Alternative Title: Giardini Botanici Hanbury
Contributor: Cornell, Ralph D
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Cornell (Ralph D.) papers
Rights Information: copyrighted
Copyright is owned by the UC Regents. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Giardini Botanici Hanbury (also known as La Mortola, or Hanbury Botanical Garden, or Villa Hanbury), on the cape of Mortola, are major botanical gardens operated by the University of Genoa. The gardens were founded by Sir Thomas Hanbury, a British entrepreneur, after he had made his fortune in China.
Two men walking with a small horse-drawn carriage on a road that winds around a building in La Mortola botanical garden. There is a tall stone retaining wall behind the building. Two very tall trees grow in the yard behind the wall.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: La Mortola 1929
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1411_0655
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Language: English
Subject: Environment
Gardens
Culture
Transportation
Landscape architecture
Roads--Europe
Horses--Italy--Ventimiglia
Trees
Carriages & coaches--Italian--Italy--Ventimiglia
Botanical gardens
Giardino Botanico Hanbury (Mortola, Italy)
Source: Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

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