Wilhelmina West working a water pump, Pacific Junction, 1900
Item Overview
- Title
- Wilhelmina West working a water pump, Pacific Junction, 1900
- Photographer
- West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
- Date Created
- 1900
- Date
- 1900
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- West (H. H.) Collection
Notes
- Description
- H. H. West's mother, Wilhelmina, working a water pump. She has one foot up on the wooden platform at the base of the pump. There is a small building at the left and others in the distance.
- Caption
- Text from negative sleeve: 759. East, 1900. Pacific Junction. Took mother for a trip to Burlington in 1900. Went thru Red Oak on the C. B. & Q. Had to change cars at Pacific Junction, and had to wait for train for Red Oak. Mother went out to look at an old pump, and tried it. I took her as she started to pump. We had no pumps in California.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photographic negative
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs - Names
- West, Wilhelmina Lemberger, 1844-1927
- Location
- Iowa--Pacific Junction
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Water pumps--Iowa--Pacific Junction
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1998_0759_001
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002hrn6f
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.