Mertie Whitaker and Ora Prickett stand on Spring Street watching the parade for President William McKinley, Los Angeles, 1901

Title: Mertie Whitaker and Ora Prickett stand on Spring Street watching the parade for President William McKinley, Los Angeles, 1901
Photographer: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created: [May 1901]
Date: 1901-05
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection

Description: Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Mertie Whitaker and Ora Prickett stand on Spring Street watching the parade for President William McKinley. She wears a flat, straw hat and gloves and holds a handkerchief in one hand and a coat under her arm. He wears a bowler hat and has a mustache. Crowds walk by on the sidewalk and street around them, all with their backs to the camera. There is a wooden crate on the sidewalk. American flags hang from the storefronts. S. Condradi Jeweler is behind them and Whedon & Spreng Co. is next to that.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1738. Los Angeles, California, 1901. Spring Street. 1. President William McKinley is in Los Angeles. Left to right: Mertie Whitaker and her cousin Ora Prickett on Spring Street, near Second Street, watching the parade. 1 film.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Names: Prickett, Ora Markley, 1874-1951
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.051702
Latitude: -118.245575
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles
Spectators--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_1738_001
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hv032
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.