Wayne West and Forrest Whitaker stand in their boat at Uncle Tom's landing with their fishing gear, Big Bear Lake, 1944

Item Overview

Title

Wayne West and Forrest Whitaker stand in their boat at Uncle Tom's landing with their fishing gear, Big Bear Lake, 1944

Photographer

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

Date Created

September, 1944

Date

1944-09

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph, from left to right, of Wayne West and Forrest Whitaker standing in a boat with their fishing gear at Uncle Tom's landing on Big Bear Lake. In the foreground, a boat enters frame at right and stretches along the bottom edge with its bow to the right. Beyond it, a short dock extends to the right and perpendicularly from a larger pier that stretches along the left frame. Fishing gear sits atop the dock. Wayne West and Forrest Whitaker stand in a small boat behind the dock in the near distance at center. Wayne West stands leftmost and nearer to camera. He faces slightly right and looks down at the reel of the fishing rod he holds. To the right of him, Forrest Whitaker stands slightly further back. He faces left and looks down while carrying 2 fishing rods. Their small motorized boat sits beneath them, moored to the dock. Several boats sit moored to the larger pier behind them in a line. They float in the water with their bows facing towards the left. Big Bear Lake stretches into the background behind Wayne and Forrest. Low mountains rise in the far distance.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2109. Big Bear Lake, California, September 1944. 1. L to R. Wayne West & Forrest Whitaker, at Uncle Tom's boat landing, with our gear. 2. Our cabin at Knight's Camp. L to R: Maud West, Agnes Whitaker, Mertie West. 3. Same - close up with Wayne West added between Maud and Agnes.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972
West, Wayne Warren, 1881-1965

Location

California--Big Bear Lake

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Big Bear Lake (San Bernardino County, Calif. : Lake)
Fishing & hunting gear
Fishing--California
Boats--American--California--Big Bear Lake