Making camp near Bullfrog Lake, Independence vicinity, about 1919

Item Overview

Title

Making camp near Bullfrog Lake, Independence vicinity, 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

A blurry photograph of H. H. West and company's campsite near Bullfrog Lake at the base of a mountainside. A couple of men mill about the site in the near distance at center. Some gear appears to be strewn across the ground around them. Then men and their gear blend into the landscape. A tree with an upward-arcing limb juts out into the foreground at right. Behind it stands a large boulder. Other trees and boulders dot the ground at the base of the mountainside that rises behind the campsite.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 553. Gardner Creek trip, about 1919. We get to Bullfrog lake and go into camp. It starts to rain. 2 negatives xxx [crossed out] making camp. Two negatives of my green tent set up on the edge of Bullfrog lake. It commenced to sleet and ice sagged the tent and finally tore it badly where it wasin[sic] the tree. It was cold. Had hard time start a fire, account everything wet. Finally got some supper and glad to get inside the tent out of the cold and rain. Next day was fine. Charlie Stavnow fishing Bullfrog lake. 5 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Independence

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.)
Camping--California--Independence
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)