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Paul Ecke Jr. with his "new" Firetruck in September 1955 at the Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas, CA.
From Left to Right:
Paul Ecke Jr., Bob & Duane Winter, Barbara Winter (Paul Jr. sister), Ray Winter, Jinx Ecke (wife of Paul Ecke Jr.), Paul Ecke Sr.,…

Paul Ecke Sr. with Henrietta Ecke (mother).

President Gerald Ford, Paul Ecke Jr. at a Society of American Florists event.

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.

Paul Ecke Jr. and Elisabeth ("Jinx") Ecke on an old fire engine that Paul bought for parades, parties, YMCA events etc..

Elisabeth (Jinx) Ecke, Paul Ecke III and Lizbeth Ecke

Workers in the greenhouse

Elisabeth "Jinx" Ecke and unidentified man

Paul Ecke Jr. (front, center). The Japanese Poinsettia Association (JPA) was formed to get royalty income from Japan before a plant patent protection system was in place. Growers paid royalty to be able to grow Ecke poinsettia varieties, and got…

Paul Ecke Jr. (front, third from left), Dr. Harry Tayama, professor at Ohio State University, and Bob Maddux, friend and customer of the Paul Ecke Ranch.

Unidentified group of people

Paul Ecke Jr. shaking First Lady Rosalynn Carter's hand.

Paul Ecke Jr. (red shirt in the back), Professor Alex Laurie (plaid shirt in the back), and Dude Engel, former classmate and friend of Paul Ecke Jr. from Ohio State University.

Paul Ecke Sr. (left).

Paul Ecke Jr. (in plaid shirt and dark pants).