Bessie Velzy wades into Whitmore Tub, Mammoth Lakes vicinity, 1914

Item Overview

Title: Bessie Velzy wades into Whitmore Tub, Mammoth Lakes vicinity, 1914
Photographer: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created: 1914
Date: 1914
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description: Bessie Velzy appears to wave to the camera as she stands in knee-high water in Whitmore Tub (hot spring). She stands center wearing a white bucket hat, long knit cardigan and shorts(?). Behind her, tall grasses line the edge of the hot spring. Further in the distance, low mountains stand.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 338. Convict Lake, Calif. 1914. Whitmore Tub. Mrs Glen Velzy - Bessie McGee Velzy.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photographic negative
Medium: b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Velzy, Bessie Grace McGee, b. 1883 or 84-1918
Location: California--Mammoth Lakes
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.)
Springs--California--Mammoth Lakes
Wading--California--Mammoth Lakes

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_000338_001
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hq5v2
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Access Condition

Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.