Id
704?lang=en_us
Idno
A0135
Type
Documents
Title
Postcard to Florence Nahl´s father (1) and brother (2)
Description
Up (1): Postcard. On the front is a photo of a painting of the central plaza of La Paz, B.C., in 1860, featuring the church, various buildings and a man on horseback. Photo by Olmedo, no. 31 | Below (2): Postcard. The front shows a photo of the natural landscape of San Bartolo, B.C., with the watering place with people and animals. Photo by Olmedo, no. 36.
Authorship
Florence Nahl
Language
English
Transcription
Back: (1) Dearest Dad, this is a darling painting of La Paz that hangs in the government building here. Everything is so quaint you would love it here. I am getting some awfully good pointers on the true mission style of Spanish architecture – the simplicity and good taste of the old houses is marvelous! Every house has an inner court with a pool on a raised huge flat stove basin for washing. The walls are covered with wonderfully sweet smelling vines and the rest is a mass of marvelous tropical green plants and singing birds of every color of the rainbow – all this against snowy whitewashed walls with old dark wood rafters and plain blue tile is exquisitely cool! The temptation to paint is so great that we can´t concentrate on much else. You have no idea what a marvelous background the banana trees make with their flat raggedy leaves. I shall miss being with you for Christmas, we´ll have to trim up a palm tree & think of you, then we´ll have a post-Christmas celebration in February, – I hear that they may stop the old Sinaloa so I may have to come home by land for the other boats are only a few hundred to us and take months to get past to Los Angeles. Here´s a big Christmas hug for you – Love, Florence |||| (2) Dear Chaunce, How´s this for the edge of the world? I wish you could see the riding clothes the men wear here to protect the user from the terrible cactus. They wear a complete long rawhide buckskin coat tied around the waist with a lariat and with long fringes from the shoulder & around the bottom. Dissplit up the back. Then they wear regular pirate boots above the knee of buckskin and a hard leather hat with a broad flat brim and a flat top to protect the head from branches tied on with a wide leather chinstrap. I´d love to see you all rigged up in that outfit. I´ll have to give you your Christmas present in February but don´t think I´m a no account sister & have forgotten you. Gosh I´m crazy to hear what happened to you about that pledging business. Damn these slow mail boats anyway. I´m sending you a microscopic serape = horse blanket – Love, Florence
Broadcast date
Length
Width
High
