Mertie West stands outside the West's motel room, San Jose, 1942

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West stands outside the West's motel room, San Jose, 1942

Photographer

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

Date Created

July 5, 1942

Date

1942-07-05

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Mertie West standing on a step outside the front door to the motor lodge she and H. H. West stayed at while passing through San Jose. A gravel drive passes across the foreground on an upward angle from right to left. The span of motel rooms runs parallel to the drive, entering the frame at left and stretching towards the right. Mertie West stands at center on a concrete step in front of the front door to an end unit room. To her left, two cars are parked, side-by-side, beneath a covered parking area. A door to another unit stands at far left and extends out-of-frame. Trees and shrubbery line the side of the building at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1622. Yellowstone trip 1942. Sunday, July 5, 1942. Napa, California. 1. We stop at W.D.Butler's home and Mertie West gets out and meets W.D.Butler. Mrs Butler is at Church. We have dinner here with the Butlers. 2. We leave the Butlers and Napa and drive thru San Francisco, Oakland, San Mateo and down the skyline highway to San Jose, where we stop for the night. Our San Jose cabin. 2 films [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]

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

California--San Jose

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Rest stops--California--San Jose
Automobile travel--California
Automobiles--American--California--San Jose
Motels--California--San Jose