H. H. West holds a string of trout while Elizabeth West, Frances West and Ted McClellan watch, Mammoth Lakes vicinity, 1915

Item Overview

Title

H. H. West holds a string of trout while Elizabeth West, Frances West and Ted McClellan watch, Mammoth Lakes vicinity, 1915

Photographer

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

Date Created

1915

Date

1915

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

At right, H. H. West holds the end of a string of trout and cigar while he looks to the camera. He stands in front of a boulder. The string extends to the left side of the image. In the center, about fifteen total trout hang from the string. A stick standing left-of-center supports the string of trout. The string is attached to a parked car near the rear tire. Frances West, Elizabeth West and Ted McClellan stand in line extending back from behind the stick. The girls wear similar printed dresses with bonnets and all three face the general direction of H. H. A car that faces left is parked behind and to the left of them. A mountain rises in the background at left.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 353. Convict Lake, 1915. H.H.West holding end of string of trout. Elizabeth West and Frances West at other end, with Ted McClellan in rear.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966
Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
McClellan, James Edward, 1886-1968

Location

California--Mammoth Lakes

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.)
Mountains--California
Fishing--California
Trout--California
Camping--California--Mammoth Lakes