Glen Velzy, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain and Chet Egdell at Grays Meadows camp ground during a trip to Gardner Creek, about 1919

Item Overview

Title

Glen Velzy, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain and Chet Egdell at Grays Meadows camp ground during a trip to Gardner Creek, about 1919

Photographer

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

Date Created

[circa 1919]

Date

1919

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Glen Velzy, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain and Chet Egdell in front of a shack at the camp at Grays Meadows at the start of their trip to Gardner Creek.
Text from negative sleeve: 542. Gardner Creek trip about 1919. We packed in from Independence to Gardner creek via Bullfrog Lake and Charlotte Lake. Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain, H. H. West, Glen Velzy. Packer was named Robinson. We went in over Kearsarge Pass. L to R: Glen Velzy, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain and Chet Egdell. Swain was employee of the Western Rubber & Supply Co. A half brother of Jesse Brown. Egdell was a garage owner at Independence who arranged he trip but at last minute was not able to get away. He had been in there before and promised us bear and deer, and golden trout. A very hard two day trip in. We drove our cars to Gray's Meadows where this picture was taken. Packed up to Heart Lakes that day and went to Gardne[r] the next day.
Gray Meadows camp ground is situated along Independence Creek in the Onion Valley area of the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Edgell, Chester Arthur, 1879-1943
Swain, Cleo Eric, 1891-1974
Stavnow, Charles Ashworth, 1868-1947
Velzy, Glen Roy, 1884-1951

Location

California--Inyo County

Longitude

36.781579

Latitude

-118.289055

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Grays Meadow (Calif.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Camping--California--Inyo County