Men listen in to a phone call from President Warren G. Harding to his sister, marking the opening of the Valencia Orange Show. His sister is Mrs. E. E. Remsberg, who is visible at the left edge of the photograph. Other men listen in to the call. The map of the United States features a black line that most likely represents the path of the telephone wires that connected Washington D. C. to Anaheim.
This photograph appears with the article, "Harding Hears Sister's Voice: President Has Chat When He Opens Orange Show: Sixty Citizens 'Listen In' at Anaheim Event: Valencia Exhibit Attracts Throng on First Day," Los Angeles Times, 18 May 1921: II1.
This photograph appears with the article, "Harding Hears Sister's Voice: President Has Chat When He Opens Orange Show: Sixty Citizens 'Listen In' at Anaheim Event: Valencia Exhibit Attracts Throng on First Day," Los Angeles Times, 18 May 1921: II1.
A crowd gathers to watch Mrs. E. E. Remsberg conduct a phone call with her brother, President Warren G. Harding to open the Valencia Orange Show. Mrs. Remsberg sits on the right side of the table closest to the foreground of the photograph. A portrait of President Harding hangs in the background. All along the table there are receivers that other people used to listen in on the phone call.