Fellow serviceman of H. H. West, Jr. poses with a rifle in the snow, Dutch Harbor, 1943

Item Overview

Title

Fellow serviceman of H. H. West, Jr. poses with a rifle in the snow, Dutch Harbor, 1943

Photographer

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

Date Created

June, 1943

Date

1943-06

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of a companion of H. H. West, Jr. standing on a patch of snow and posing with a rifle outside the barracks while stationed at Dutch Harbor during World War II. The young man stands at center. He is dressed in his military uniform and holds his rifle upright at his side as he looks to the camera. He stands on a patch of snow that covers the ground around him and extends back into the image. Behind and to the right of the serviceman, the side of a Quonset hut stretches across the image. It enters frame at right. It is constructed of corrugated sheet metal and has an arced roof. A low hill covered in patches of snow stands in the distance at left.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2007. Fort Mears, Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Alaska, June 1943. Films sent to H.H.West by Hebard to print. 5 films of hut, surroundings and companions, unidentified.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs
black-and-white photographs

Location

Alaska--Dutch Harbor

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Military personnel--American--Alaska--Dutch Harbor
Firearms
Quonset huts--Alaska--Dutch Harbor
Barracks--American--Alaska--Dutch Harbor
Fort Mears (Alaska)