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Narrator Lizbeth Ecke is the daughter of San Diego horticulturist Paul Ecke Jr., who contributed to the popularity of the poinsettia plant. Lizbeth Ecke also is on the board for the YMCA and the American Forest Exchange. In this interview, Lizbeth discusses her childhood growing up in Encinitas, California and working alongside her father in the flower business, and her experience as a women working in a male dominated industry in comparison to her father and brother.

Scope and Contents "Picking [ranuculus]. Flower fields in Carlsbad." [025: Woman wearing straw wide-brimmed hat, bule shirt, and jeans, and holding bundle of red and orange-yellow ranunculus. She stands in a field of orange-yellow ranunculus. Four laborers and overhead spray sprinklers in background. 026: Man wearing black hat, brown shirt, and white pants picking ranunculus in yellow and white filed of the flowers; 241: Agricultural workers harvest flowers, possibly ranunculus in the Carlsbad Flower Fields....

Scope and Contents "Working conditions in S.D. flower field As related by a worker / Condiciones de trabajo en los campos de flores Relatado por un trabajadar"; "Lawton and Gardner Trials" [Zurebu Gardner and Gary Lawton, charged in the killings of Riverside, California, police officers]; "In Eden Gardens: Community Responds To Police Threat" [police harassment of residents of Eden Gardens, Solana Beach]; "Capitalism and the Worker / Capitalismo y el Obrero"; "Alaskan Native Workers Protest" [against...

Overview The Paul Ecke Ranch, Inc. Business Records and Family Papers at California State University San Marcos Library include approximately 600 cubic ft. of paper records, prints and photographs, digital and analog media, and artifacts documenting daily operations of the business i.e. the breeding, development, production and marketing of flowering plants, particularly the poinsettia. While the bulk of the records document the national and international sales, strategic planning, research and...