A hand-colored pastoral twilight washes the sky in peach and pale green above the rugged silhouette of Mt. Signal, the isolated peak straddling the California–Baja California border that has guided desert travelers for centuries — the Imperial Valley's own landmark rising above alfalfa fields dotted with hay bales, orchards, and a post-and-rail fence catching the last light. Published as a souvenir by the legendary Barbara Worth Hotel in El Centro, this card evokes the agricultural boom era when the Salton Sea reclamation transformed the desert into the "Winter Garden of the World," drawing settlers who read Harold Bell Wright's 1911 novel The Winning of Barbara Worth and dreamed of making the valley bloom.