Neil Wells, Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker, Frances Wells, H. H. West, Jr. and Forrest Whitaker standing on the front porch of the Neil Wells cabin, Big Bear, 1932

Item Overview

Title

Neil Wells, Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker, Frances Wells, H. H. West, Jr. and Forrest Whitaker standing on the front porch of the Neil Wells cabin, Big Bear, 1932

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

winter 1932

Date

1932

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Members of the Wells, West and Whitaker families stand outside the snow-covered Neil Wells cabin in winter. Neil Wells is front and center shoveling snow and smoking a cigarette. Behind him, from left to right: Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker, Frances (West) Wells, H. H. West, Jr. and Forrest Whitaker stand on the cabin's front porch.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Big Bear, Calif. Winter 1932. The Neil Wells cabin. Left to right: Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker, Frances Wells, H. H. West Jr., and Forrest Whitaker. Neil shoveling snow. Forrest and Agnes Whitaker at rear of (?) cabin. 2 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998
Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
Whitaker, Agnes Hawley, 1878-1967
Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972
Wells, Neil
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

California--Big Bear Lake

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Cabins--California--Big Bear
Snow--California--Big Bear Lake