Whitaker family gathers in Alhambra Park, Alhambra, about 1930

Item Overview

Title

Whitaker family gathers in Alhambra Park, Alhambra, 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

Whitaker family gathers in Alhambra Park. The children, posing in the front, are eating candy. The head of an unidentified man is visible just behind Mertie West. There is another child visible in the background. There are palm trees behind the family.
H. H. West's second wife, Mertie Whitaker West, was a member of the Whitaker family.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 33. Alhambra Park about 1930. Left to right: Standing behind: Forrest Whitaker, Will H Shaw, Wes W Witherby, Hattie Whitaker, Josie Shaw, Abraham Whitaker, Mertie West, Zetta Witherby, Agnes Whitaker, Edith Shaw, Romayne Shaw. Siting: L to R- Glen [sic] Whitaker, Everett Shaw, Eleanor Shaw, Guy Whitaker, Shirleyana Shaw, H. H. West Jr.

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, Glenn Guy, 1919-1998
Witherby, Zetta Bowman, 1875-1957
Shaw, William Henry, 1870-1960
Kaparoff, Shirliana Shaw, b. 1926
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Whitaker, Abraham, 1848-1934
Whitaker, Hattie Sutton Morgan, 1886-1982
Shaw, Edith Bowen, 1901-1985
Witherby, Warren Wesley, 1871-1948
Shaw, Josie Whitaker, 1874-1956
Laird, Eleanor Charlotte Shaw, 1920-2005
Whitaker, Agnes Hawley, 1878-1967
Shaw, Romayne Richard, 1899-1972
Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972
Shaw, Everett, 1906-1996
Whitaker, George Guy, 1886-1950

Location

California--Alhambra

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Alhambra Park (Alhambra, Calif.)
Families--American--California--Alhambra
Parks--California--Alhambra