Guide Robinson, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain, and Glen Velzy resting their train of horses at Onion Flat during a trip to Gardner Creek, about 1919

Item Overview

Title

Guide Robinson, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain, and Glen Velzy resting their train of horses at Onion Flat 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 Guide Robinson, Charles Stavnow, Cleo Swain, and Glen Velzy resting their train of horses at Onion Flat during a trip to Gardner Creek with a mountainside in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 544. Gardner trip, about 1919. We stop at Onion Flat to rest our train. L to R: Guide Robinson. Stavnow, Swain, Velzy, with back to camera. Summit of Kerseare Pass, looking down toward Bull Frog Lake. There was a 5 gal oil can in the rocks at the summit in which travelers were supposed to put their names. We went thru the can and found Frank R. Willis had been across at one time. He was a personal friend of the Wests, and helped incorporate the Western Rubber & Supply Co. 2 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Swain, Cleo Eric, 1891-1974
Stavnow, Charles Ashworth, 1868-1947
Velzy, Glen Roy, 1884-1951

Location

California--Inyo County

Longitude

36.77267

Latitude

-118.340263

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Pack animals--California
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Horses--California
Camping--California--Inyo County