Smith-West tour party stopped along the aqueduct road, Owens Lake (Inyo County), 1913

Title: Smith-West tour party stopped along the aqueduct road, Owens Lake (Inyo County), 1913
Photographer: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created: August 1913
Date: 1913-08
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection

Description: Photograph of H. H. West's Buick and Dave F. Smith's EMF parked in tandem along the aqueduct road by Owens Lake. The dirt road passes through the image on a curve. It enters frame at left, juts out towards center before curving back to the left and disappearing behind the cars and a mound. H. H. West's Buick is parked nearest to the camera and Dave F. Smith's EMF is behind it. They are both viewed at an angle from the front and face left. Someone (Nella West?) sits in the back seat of the Buick and reads a newspaper. Dave and Isabelle Smith sit in the front seat of their EMF and look out towards the right. Someone (Mary A. West?) stands by the right side of the EMF with their back towards the camera. Large rocks lie in the dirt off to the side of the road in the foreground at right. A rocky, earthen mound stands on the left side of the road behind the cars. Silhouetted mountains rise in the distance at right.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1126. Smith West tour August 1913. Owens Lake. 1. Owens Lake from the road. 2. Our cars along the Aqueduct road by the lake. My Buick is leading. 3. Nella West reading a paper in the car, Mrs Mary A West with binoculars. 3 films.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: West, Nella Adeline, 1874-1941
Smith, Isabelle, b. 1886 or 87
Smith, David Franklin, 1882-1960
Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
Location: California--Owens Lake (Inyo County)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Rest stops--California--Owens Lake
Automobile travel--California
Automobiles--American--California--Owens Lake

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_1126_002
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hsd71
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.