English: Caption to the left of the image: The mood of this picture conveys a story to the mind. It is an effort to depict "California in 1849," under Mexican rule, suddenly awakening to the incoming tide of civilization. She is very young, her hair is tangled, her feet bare, her lap filled with poppies. But her eyes reveal the coming wonder, the dawning of a new day for the West. Miss Viva D. Cummins, who thus represents her native State, is a child of song. Her natural gift for impersonation of strange tribes from the World's Fair, singing songs in more than thirteen languages, has won for her, through her patroness, Mrs. Senator Hearst, of California, a scholarship at Agramonte's New York School of Opera and Oratorio, where she is now studying the role of Carmen.