Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand in front of Mertie West and H. H. West Jr., Inyo County, about 1930

Item Overview

Title

Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand in front of Mertie West and H. H. West Jr., Inyo County, about 1930

Photographer

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

Date Created

About 1930

Date

1930

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand in front of Mertie West and H. H. West Jr. at a campsite. There is a car parked at the left and a tent at the right. Clothes hang on a clothesline beside the tent. There are mountains in the background.
Mertie West was H. H. West's second wife. Forrest Whitaker was her brother and Agnes was Forrest's wife.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 729. Pine Creek, Calif. About 1930. 4 pictures of H. H. West Jr fishing in Pine Creek. 2. H. H. West Jr lying on the bed he slept in under the stars. 3. Part of our camp. Forrest and Agnes, Will and Mertie. 4. Our cooking outfit in front of our tent. 5. H. H. West and H. H. Jr getting reading to start breakfast. 8 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
Whitaker, Agnes Hawley, 1878-1967
Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

California--Inyo County

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Camping--California--Inyo County