This post card is definitely celebrating the fact that almonds grow in California. Those are actually flowering almond trees behind the rail car in the post card. This post card was mailed on January 16, 1913 and I wanted to see if the almonds were still being grown in California 107 years later. Sure enough, there are three Almond Growers Associations near (within 300 km) San Francisco. One town, Kerman, has the same name as a town in Iran that grows pistachios. I wonder if this is a coincidence???
This picture to the left is the back of the post card. I cannot read the writing, but I can see that it was sent from San Jose, California to Chicago, Illinois. I also see that the post mark is advertising that there will be an international exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. The World's Panama Pacific Exposition
was from February 20th to December 4th of that year. It was seen as an opportunity to show to the world that they had recovered from the earthquake of 1906. They did very well.
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