Names: West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West, Jr., Mertie West, Wes Witherby and Zetta Witherby posing for a photograph in front of foliage at Hobart Blvd. The group stands left-of-center. H. H. wears dark clothes and rests his hand to his hip. Next to him, Mertie has one arm wrapped around H. H. and the other rests at her side. She wears a striped dress. Wes stands slightly behind her and rests one arm on Mertie's right shoulder and rests the other on Zetta's left shoulder. He wears a fedora hat, jacket and vest. At right, Zetta stands with her arms clasped in front of her as Wes's arm rests on her shoulder.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Group at their campsite near Rush Creek. There is a log in the foreground, and the camp kitchen is beyond that, including a camp stove, small tables, pots and pans, and dishes. William, Edith, and Josie Shaw stand at the left. A tent and a car are behind them. The others sit at a table, while Mertie West serves them. The table is under an awning. There are mountains in the background. Left to right, the people in the image are: William Shaw, Edith Shaw, Josie Shaw, Mertie West, H. H. West Jr., Abraham Whitaker, Wes Witherby, Agnes Whitaker.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Forrest Whitaker, Abraham Whitaker, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Mertie West sit in a Willys-Knight car in Yosemite National Park. Forrest Whitaker sits in the driver's seat. The two men wears hats, while the women and the boy wear what appear to be visors.
Date:: [about 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West was H. H. West's wife. Josie Shaw was her sister and William Shaw was Josie's husband. Agnes Whitaker was Mertie's sister-in-law.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West and her family pose in front of a small waterfall along Lee Vining Creek on the Tioga Grade (probably the Tioga Pass Road, State Route 120). The waterfall runs down the rocks directly behind them. There are plants growing around it.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West and his family pose in front of a small waterfall along Lee Vining Creek on the Tioga Grade (probably the Tioga Pass Road, State Route 120). The waterfall runs down the rocks directly behind them. There are plants growing around it.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Alfred Siemsen, Richard Siemsen, H. H. West Jr., Elizabeth West Siemsen, Mertie West, and Dorothea Siemsen stand in front of the Siemsen's home. H. H. West Jr. holds a cat. Alfred holds what may be a camera. Dorothea holds something to her mouth.
Date:: About 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West wearing a striped dress and an apron, holding a pot and bending over a camp stove with three pots on it, with an automobile in the background, at a seaside camp at San Onofre.
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Forrest Whitaker, Abraham Whitaker, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Mertie West sit in a Willys-Knight car in Yosemite National Park. Forrest Whitaker sits in the driver's seat. The two men wears hats, while the women and the boy wear what appear to be visors. There is a sign next to the road at the right of the photograph.
Date:: [about 1929]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West standing under some trees and handling a fishing rod. She operates the fishing reel and looks to the left. The fishing rod extends out of frame on the left. Trees stand immediately behind her on the right. A car is parked under trees behind Mertie on the left. The back end of the car faces the camera. Camping equipment sits on the ground between Mertie and the car.
Date:: [about 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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