Date palms, planted in rows, with intersection of dirt roads in foreground and man and woman walking at right. Photographer's shadow visible in foreground., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2181 P1 - 2 Indio - Calif. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. DATE PALM HAREM. Indio, Calif., oasis of date palms, showing at right male trees alongside rows of female, bearing, trees. On the female trees are great bunches of ripe dates which are gathered and tended from platforms like one in second view enclosed. It is 16 ft. up to the fruit. Some of these grees [sic] bear 250 lbs. of dates. Oct. is ripening season. DEGLET NOOR variety. Few us[e?] about 10. [Struck out in pencil: 225R1694 Mrs. Jack Pfister of Chicago and Los Angeles and], Handwritten at edge of negative: 2181 P2
