In Long Beach

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

"In Long Beach"

Entry/Object ID

2013.943.1.1

Description

A postcard with a poem, "In Long Beach" by Haven Charles Hurst, ca. 1900s. The poem is of four eight-line stanzas and is about tourists travelling throughout the Los Angeles region and mentions the book "Ramona" being carrieda round; mountain vistas; the beach; orange groves, olives, dates and others; an ostrich farm; the missions; oil wells; and sending post cards to those "still in the East." The unused card has bleedthrough of the text onto the reverse and light soiling and rubbing and is in good condition.

Lexicon

Search Terms

Cattle--Marking--Los Angeles County (Calif.), Cattle brands--Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Postcards