California Palm Orchard

California Palm Orchard

Ohio--Delaware County--Sunbury--History--Early 20th century
Personal narratives--American--Early 20th century
Photography--Stereographs--United States--Early 20th century
Travel--United States--California--Early 20th century

Feb 23 - 1926

Valley, seeing beautiful

Date Palm orchards,

and fields of beans etc.

This scene shows a little

section for me of the fine

Palm orchards which are

helping to make this one time

desert find a place in the

map. The wild verbena

green rampant where there

was no cultivating. We

stopped in Indio and secured

a little more food for our

lunch which was enjoyed

in the shade of a cottonwood

tree (and from the running board

of the car) near Whitewater

on the main road. Further

on had a puncture. This was

Tues. One week later we were

attending my dear Chas.

Funeral. That afternoon

again we had a second blowout

several miles out of Redlands,

where we spent the night, going

next day Feb 24 to the Orange Show

at Redlands. The next day (got home

24th 7 am) Chas took the Lincoln - Mrs

Hatchard home - came home very sick

(Our last trip - this - one -

Front of picture:

Near [illegible] - Calif.

Daisy E. Green Wheaton

Feb 23, 1946

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