Group picnic near the Willamette River

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A group of three men and four women picnicking near the Willamette River around 1908. They appear to be eating cantaloupe. The photograph was printed on postcard stock and the back side includes a brief note from a man named "Cecil," writing from McMinnville, to Winnette Sears, who was in Newport, Oregon at the time. The men include Ralph Rees and Cecil; the women include "2 Gardner girls," Minnie Kincaid and Mabb Rush. This photograph is part of the Charles Lovell and Winnette Sears Walker Collection. Winnette was a 1906 alumna of Linfield College. Charles was an alumnus of Tualatin Academy who later became a musician and an insurance agent in Hillsboro, Oregon.