Identification: Roat family surrounds their Dodge touring car ready to leave for California.
Sitting on running board: Marguerite. Inside car, left to right: Geraldine, Katharine (in shadows), and Bob. On right: Jess, Kate, and Betty. (Because of illness, Eleanor stayed behind with Grandma Thomas until December.)

Notes: Written on back: "Taken the morning we left home. In the back yard by Lucretia. All the neighbors were out looking at us." [It is not known who Lucretia was who took the photograph, perhaps a neighbor.] A second photograph taken the same morning is below.

Date: August 1920.

Repository: Patricia O'Brien Hellmers.

Size of original: 4.75 inches x 3 inches.

Number: R-PHO-0134.

Retrieve: Larger image (jpg - 3,186k).

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