Eight unidentified servicemen pose outside H. H. West, Jr.'s quarters, Dutch Harbor, 1943

Item Overview

Title

Eight unidentified servicemen pose outside H. H. West, Jr.'s quarters, Dutch Harbor, 1943

Photographer

West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

Spring, 1943

Date

1943

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of 8 servicemen standing in front of the quarters of H. H. West, Jr. while stationed at Dutch Harbor during World War II. A walkway of wooden slats enters frame at left and stretches through the center of the image on an upward angle towards the right. It then extends back to the left towards the front door of the Quonset hut-style barracks. Eight servicemen stand on the steps and walkway leading up to barrack's door. A man stands on the walkway at center. To the right of him, another man crouches down on the walkway. Behind both of them and to the right, 3 men stand in a row on a landing. On the topmost step in front of the door and to the left of everyone else, 3 more men stand. All look to the camera. The front of the barracks stands behind them to the left. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the side; it faces right. Snow-covered mountains rise in the distance at center and right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2022. H.H.West Jr films sent down from Dutch Harbor June 1943. 8 unidentified soldiers in front of Quinset [sic] hut quarters of H.H.West Jr Fort Mears, Dutch Harbor, Alaska, spring of 1943

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
Group portraits
black-and-white photographs

Location

Alaska--Dutch Harbor

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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