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  • Collection: Business records

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Paul Ecke Jr. at Flower Auction in the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad.

ecke_slides.pdf
Visual index of 35mm slides in the Ecke collection. Slides cover a variety of subjects, dates, locations and people. Prominent in the collection are pictures of varieties of poinsettias, flowering plants and other marketing material.

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As of 2018, the San Onefre Ranch is a part of Camp Pendleton. The Ecke Ranch grew poinsettias outdoors in the fields (top right and center of the image). 

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Alex Laurie, floriculture professor, Ohio State University. The Society of American Florists established an award in his name in 1948.

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Andreas Kientzler,  Kientzler Company and Innovaplant with wife, presumably in Costa Rica.

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Articles of Incorporation of Paul Ecke Ranch

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Assignment of issued patents (8) by Paul Ecke to Paul Ecke, Inc..

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At Fides, Dutch company. 

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Barbara Winter (Paul Jr.'s sister) and Ray Winter, with their sons,  Ray (older) and Duane. 

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Unidentified. 

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From left to right: Paul Ecke Jr., Manabu Kurishima, Kimie Kurishima (wife of Manabu), Lizbeth Ecke, and Professor Tsurishima. Taken on a business trip to visit Japanese poinsettia growers and establish a plant patent act in Japan.

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By-Laws of Paul Ecke Ranch

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CA Congressman Bob Wilson presenting Ecke poinsettias to President Richard Nixon.

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Presumably at the Lake Arrowhead Cabin where the Ecke family went every summer. Elisabeth "Jinx" Ecke engaged someone to help with the three children. 

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The picture was taken presumably from the Carlsbad Ranch, site of the modern day Flower Fields. 
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