Richard Siemsen sits on a toboggan, Lake Arrowhead vicinity, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Richard Siemsen sits on a toboggan, Lake Arrowhead vicinity, 1938

Photographer

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

Date Created

September 4, 1938

Date

1938-09-04

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Richard Siemsen sitting on a toboggan that is riding on a slide of pine needles. The toboggan faces right and he poses for the photograph with his legs crossed. Dry ground and trees are visible behind him.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 387. Arrowhead. Crestline Public Camp Ground. Sunday, September 4, 1938. Daughter of M.Gordon, 714 Fraser Ave., Los Angeles. Taken at rear of her father's truck. The cook stove in the Siemsen camp. Richard Siemsen on a toboggan riding on a slide of pine needles. The camp pump. Boys not identified. The two girls are Miss Dawn Radley, 5601 Fishburn Ave., Maywood, Calif. Miss Helen Head, 4727 Slauson Ave., Maywood, Calif. 4 negatives. The Siemsens were camped here.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Siemsen, Richard Alfred, b. 1929

Location

California--Lake Arrowhead

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Toboggans--California--Lake Arrowhead