Mertie West walks along a driveway in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West walks along a driveway in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, 1947

Photographer

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

Date Created

October, 1947

Date

1947-10

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Distant view of Mertie West walking along a driveway in Arlington National Cemetery. A cemetery lawn enters frame from the bottom edge at left and stretches straight back. Beside it, a wide driveway runs parallel to it at right, also entering frame from the bottom edge. Down the road and at center, Mertie West walks, approaching the camera. Behind her, the driveway widens into a roundabout. Shrubbery sits in the middle of the roundabout. Trees and shrubbery dot the cemetery's grounds throughout the image.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2370. Eastern trip October 1947 Arlington 1 Entrance to Arlington cemetery from Arlington Memorial bridge 2 Mertie West and two ladies crossing boulevard at entrance to cemetery to catch bus for Washington 3 Graves in Arlington 4 Mertie West walking along driveway in Arlington cemetery 5 War Memorial and tomb of unknown soldier Mertie West 6 Close up of tomb of unknown soldier 7 Some one photographing the guard at tomb of unknown soldier

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.)
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Virginia--Arlington

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Sightseers--Virginia--Arlington