Boys and girls gather around the camp pump, Lake Arrowhead vicinity, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Boys and girls gather around the camp pump, 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

About three older boys and three older girls stand atop a concrete slab and gather around a pump extending upwards from the slab. Two of the boys are bent over by the pump and another stands in front of them on the left. Dawn Radley and Helen Head are two of the girls in the photograph. A small girl sits on the front edge of the slab with her back to the camera. They are surrounded by trees. A tent is pitched behind the group at center. A car is parked behind trees on the left.

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

Radley, Dawn Ann, b. 1919 or 20
Head, Helen

Location

California--Lake Arrowhead

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Camping--California--Lake Arrowhead
Wells--California--Lake Arrowhead
Water pumps--California--Lake Arrowhead