Mertie West stands outside the West's cabin at McCoy's Motor Court, Phoenix, 1942

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West stands outside the West's cabin at McCoy's Motor Court, Phoenix, 1942

Photographer

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

Date Created

May, 1942

Date

1942-05

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Mertie West stands in the distance in front of the West's cabin at McCoy's Motor Court in Phoenix. The Wests stopped here en route to the Grand Canyon. She stands left-of-center in front of the front door to their cabin. In front of her, Adirondack chairs sit in a small rock-lined yard which is encircled by a driveway. The West's car is parked halfway under their cabin's carport on the left side of the cabin. The cabin is part of a duplex and sits on the left side of the duplex. Another unit sits attached to their cabin at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 569. Grand Canyon trip, May 1942. On arrival at Phoenix went too McCoy's Motor Court on west Van Buren street. Entrance to Court. Fine place. Our cabin, with Mertie West and our car. Had electric refrigerator. Lovely place. H.H.West in front of cabin. From Phoenix we went to Prescott, thence Jerome, thence Flagstaff, Arizona. Here we stopped at Knox Court. Picture of Knox Court. 4 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Arizona--Phoenix

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Motels--Arizona--Phoenix
Automobiles--American--Arizona--Phoenix