Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West sit on the veranda at Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West sit on the veranda at Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Photographer

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

Date Created

March, 1947

Date

1947-03

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph, from left to right, of Zetta Witherby, Dode (Sarah Josephine) Witherby and Mertie West sitting on the veranda of the Furnace Creek Inn at Death Valley National Monument. The 3 women sit in chairs, left-of-center. Mertie West sits rightmost. She faces center, but gazes towards the left. Zetta Witherby sits leftmost and faces towards the left. Dode Witherby sits at center, behind and between Zetta and Mertie. She faces towards the left, but looks to the camera. They relax on an elevated veranda at the Furnace Creek Inn. The veranda passes through the foreground, arcing back towards the right. The trunk of a palm tree stands behind and to the right of the women. Further beyond them, the rooftops of the inn wind through the image at center and right. Salt flats stretch into the distance at left and mountains rise in the distance at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2262. Death Valley trip March 1947 The narrow gauge 7 miles long at Ryan. Old adobe ruins Harmony Borax Plant 1865 L to R: Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby, Mertie West, Wes Witherby. On the veranda at Furnace Creek Inn L to R Zetta Witherby. Dode Witherby. Mertie West 4 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Witherby, Zetta Bowman, 1875-1957
Witherby, Sarah Josephine, 1876-1968
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)

Longitude

36.450718

Latitude

-116.852545

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Porches--California--Death Valley National Park
Leisure--California--Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park (Calif. and Nev.)
Resorts--California--Death Valley National Park