Mertie West walks and converses with the Cares of Glendale, New Orleans, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West walks and converses with the Cares of Glendale, New Orleans, 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

A slightly out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West, Ruth A. Care and Colin D. Care conversing and crossing a road. The road stretches across the foreground. Mertie West and the Cares cross the road in the near distance at center. They are captured in motion as they walk towards camera. Mertie West appears to engage in conversation with Ruth Care while they walk. Colin Care holds Ruth by the arm at right and looks to the camera. Behind them, a lawn runs alongside the road. Several other people mill about the lawn area. In the background, an animal cage sits at left, trees stand at center and a brick building stands at right. Patches of white dot the bottom edge and larger streaks flank the lower left and right edges.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2374. Eastern Trip October 1947 New Orleans 1 Mertie West on seat on Sight Seeing Boat on River. Small film 2 Narrow street scene Small film 3 L to R Mertie West, Mr and Mrs Colin D Care of Glendale, Calif. 4 Along the docks 5 Entrance to the docks foot Canal St 6 Sign at the docks. Del Norte SS in rear 7 & 8 Two views of the SS De [sic] Norte 9 Mertie West on SS President looks down at Del Norte 10 Mertie West on Canal street 11 SS President; our sight seeing trip on the river

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Care, Ruth A. Brown, 1894-1960
Care, Colin Douglas, 1891-1973
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Louisiana--New Orleans

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Conversation
Sightseers--Louisiana--New Orleans