Old Sunset Gun Club screen house, overgrown with weeds, Seal Beach vicinity, 1942

Item Overview

Title

Old Sunset Gun Club screen house, overgrown with weeds, Seal Beach vicinity, 1942

Photographer

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

Date Created

December 18, 1942

Date

1942-12-18

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of an old screened hut on the Sunset Gun Club grounds, overgrown with weeds and going to ruin. A large streak of white stretches from the lower right corner and up to the left, obscuring the bottom portion of the image. In the near distance at center, the screened hut, formerly used for cleaning ducks, stands. The small square hut is viewed at an angle. Wood slats surround the bottom of the structure and screening surrounds the upper third of it. To the left, tall grasses and weeds grow in clump that intrudes upon the hut. Wetlands are visible extending into the distance at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1980. Sunset Gun Club. Taken December 18, 1942. 1. The old Sunset Gun Club house looking north east. Weed overgrown lot, and the inside of the house open, going to ruin. No one lived in it for several years. The old duck ponds are leveled off and now a bean field. The blind have been pulled out. 2. The screened house where we cleaned the ducks and hung them to cool. Weed overgrown and going to ruin. 2 films.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Sunset Gun Club

Location

California--Seal Beach

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Huts--California--Seal Beach
Abandoned buildings--California--Seal Beach