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women picking wildflowers in the San Joaquin Valley
December 26, 2012 | Wildflowers, California
This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs
In this picture from the early 1940s, travelers in California’s San Joaquin Valley gather owl’s clover and blue lupine in a field along Route 99. The photo originally accompanied a 1942 feature story on California’s abundant wildflowers.
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