A small stack of rocks and wood planks piled on a small hillside, Germanville, 1900

Item Overview

Title

A small stack of rocks and wood planks piled on a small hillside, Germanville, 1900

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Lemberger, John L., 1846-1932

Date Created

October, 1900

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of two hillsides, taken by John Lemberger. One hillside rises in the foreground at right, and the other rises behind it in the background at left. A small pile of rocks and planks sit at center on the hillside at right. Trees stand on the hillsides in the distance.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 481. Germanville, Iowa. October 1900. I took mother east in August 1900 and left her at Burlington, Iowa, when I came h home. She staid[sic] a couple of months back there and went out to Germanville, where she was born. Uncle John (John Lemberger of Ottumwa, Iowa) went with her and took my camera which I had left with mother for purpose of taking a lot of pictures. Uncle John took these. They are pictures of various places that mother and Uncle John knew when they were children, and I do not know what they are now. Apparently scenes of the farm they lived on. Last year (1941) I corresponded with some children of Christine Lemberger who married Jacob Miller, and I think this is the Miller home in Germanville. See Lemberger genealogy in the Los Angeles Public Library for letters and descriptions of some of these. 7 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Subjects

Rural areas--Iowa--Germanville
Landscapes (Representations)
Hills--Iowa--Germanville

Location

Iowa--Germanville

Resource type

still image