Last week's post card featured a very large child standing on a flat car with some Navel Oranges. This week the post card is specializing in large peaches and the price of peaches in 1910. This is a post card from the Edward H. Mitchell production line of exaggerated post card scenes. We can see on the top, front of the card that it came from Oakland.
The back of the post card verifies this; it is postmarked as being mailed from Oakland, California. The message on the back is not in a secret code; it is written upside-down. It is telling the reader that the peaches are just now coming into season (mailed July 8, 1910) and that they are selling for 7 to 10 cents per dozen. It also mentions that the grapes are just starting to come into the stores, too.
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