Three family members pose beneath an ornamental palm tree in this candid portrait from the late 1920s. Their fur-trimmed coats and cloche hats reflect fashionable interwar dress, while the mature palm and mild climate suggest a coastal California setting associated with the Presidio of San Francisco. Snapshots like this one, taken with increasingly affordable personal cameras, document the everyday elegance and social customs of American family life between the World Wars. Project: 218574