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Title	Ruth Barker with niece and nephew holding desert wild flowers, between Indian Wells and Indio, California, 1920
Description	Photograph of Ruth Barker with niece and nephew with desert wild flowers (San Verbena or Abronia), county highway between Indian Wells (near Point Happy) and Indio, California, 10 March 1920. She stands at center, behind a flowering plant, while the children stand at each side. "The flowers are the famous desert sand verboena or abronia. That year they were unusually abundant on account of so many showers that spring. There had been a fall rain to start the plants and enough showers to make them reach their prime in growth. The blooms come on the plants when they are quite small but a plant will grow long runners and keep blooming for a long time. I have seen the verboena blossom here at any time except summer but they are probably best in February, March or April according to the amount of rain keeping them going. The masses of pinkish lavender covered miles and acres of sand dunes that year. Their fragrance was wonderful and the sight of them with the desert foreground with snowcapped San Jacinto & Grayback Mountains in the distance was wonderful. [...] There was another flower in our bouquets. It is the Mexican primrose. They, too were wonderfully abundant that spring, growing among the sand verboenas. Their centers are pale yellow." -- letter from Ruth Barker to C.C. Pierce, Indio, California, 19 January 1922.
Subject	Barker, Ruth
Subject (adlf)	agricultural sites
Subject (file heading)	Botany -- Flowers -- Assorted
Subject (lcsh)	Plants Flowers
Geographic subject (county)	Riverside
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	1920-03-10
Photographer	Barker, Ruth
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	1920-03-10
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	4774
Call number	CHS-4774
Microfiche number	1-82-97
Legacy record ID	chs-m17144; USC-1-1-1-14212
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-4774
Archival file	chs_Volume98/CHS-4774.tiff

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