H. H. West casually posing behind fish he caught, Newport Beach, 1914

Item Overview

Title

H. H. West casually posing behind fish he caught, Newport Beach, 1914

Photographer

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

Date Created

April, 1914

Date

1914-04

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 706. Newport Beach, Calif. April 1914. See negative #631 - Laguna Beach. Glen Velzy and I had been fishing at Laguna, and on the way home stopped at Newport Beach and took some photos of our catch. 7 pictures of myself with our fish. 4 pictures of Glen Velzy with our fish. 2 pictures of myself on the Newport Pier with a big sea bass some fellow had caught. 2 pictures of the fellow who caught the big sea bass. Now unknown. 15 negatives.
Photograph of H. H. West posing while standing behind fish hanging from a wooden beam in Newport Beach. H. H. West stands right-of-center and gazes off towards the left. He rests one hand to his hip and extends the other out to the right to hold a fishing pole. About a couple dozen fish he and Glen Velzy caught dangle vertically from a wooden beam that spans the image horizontally in front of H. H. Sands bags sit piled up to the right of and behind H. H. Beyond the sand bags, a building stands. In the far distance at left, a pier is visible.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

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

Location

California--Newport Beach

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Fishing--California
Piers & wharves--California--Newport Beach
Fish--California