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Into the Imperial Vallely to take up Desert Claims, would stay all night for a dollar a cot -- dormitory style. Tent # 3 was occupied by Mr. F.S. Miller and his wife until they moved out on the edge of town on a five acre lot. Intending to build an adobe house but the summer heat and dust drove them to the rear room of the bank after it was built. Mr. Miller was the promoter of the town of Brawley. The Olla hanging in the shade represents the town pump. This horizontal, sepia-toned photograph from approximately 1903 depicts a settlement of tent-like structures in a flat, dusty landscape. The scene features three distinct structures marked with handwritten numbers in black ink. On the far left, a structure labeled with the number "2" is partially visible behind a large wooden barrel and a simple fence made of thin vertical poles. In the center, a man wearing a light-colored hat, shirt, and trousers stands in front of a low, rectangular building with a dark, open doorway, labeled with the number "1". To the right, a peaked tent with a dark, triangular entrance is labeled with the number "3". The ground is light-colored and uneven, and the sky is pale and featureless. Below the photograph, a horizontal color calibration strip with various colored squares and a grayscale step wedge is positioned against the gray mounting surface. Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, January 2026 .
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