Elizabeth West gets water from a spring, Little Lake, about 1914

Item Overview

Title

Elizabeth West gets water from a spring, Little Lake, about 1914

Photographer

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

Date Created

[circa 1914]

Date

1914

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Elizabeth West fetching water from a spring at Little Lake. She stands right-of-center and holds a pail out to the left. A pipe extends out from behind her head and water flows out of the pipe and into the pail she holds. What appears to be a sluice juts into the image at lower left. A dwelling stands in the near distance at left. Behind Elizabeth, fencing extends across the image. In the far distance low mountains rise. A sign at far left reads, "[...] MILES TO [...] AIR AT [...] PENDENCE [...] RAGE [...]."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 641. Little Lake, Calif. About 1914. Elizabeth West getting some water from a pipe from a spring. A few years after the Government condemned this water, saying that it contained too much arsenic. Mrs George M. West in front seat of my Buick. Frances West in rear. The old stone store at Little Lake dating back prior to the Civil War may be seen in the rear. It was torn down when the present hotel was built. 2 negatives

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966

Location

California--Little Lake

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Water supply--California--Little Lake