Mr. Robinson after the weeds in the driveway, Los Angeles, 1948

Item Overview

Title

Mr. Robinson after the weeds in the driveway, Los Angeles, 1948

Photographer

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

Date Created

July, 1948

Date

1948-07

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Mr. [James] Robinson removing weeds growing from his driveway on North Ridgewood Place in Los Angeles. The camera looks towards North Ridgewood Place from a lawn. In the foreground, a walkway at left and a driveway at right stretch back towards the mid-ground, where North Ridgewood Place passes across the image. James Robinson stands hunched over in the driveway, just right-of-center. He faces towards the right and holds a shovel as he digs weeds out from between the central seam in the driveway. Lawns surround the paved areas and also stretch towards the street. At the base of the driveway at right, Tommie Newquist sits on a tricycle at center and faces camera. Two cars park along North Ridgewood Place in the mid-ground. On the far side of the street, two residences stand, facing camera. Behind them, other residential buildings are visible in the background. A streak of white stretches over the bottom edge.
According to: California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, for the year 1948, accessed through the Ancestry.com database, the Bacons, Newquists and Robinsons were neighbors of H. H. and Mertie West on North Ridgewood Place. The Wests lived at 830 North Ridgewood Place and the Bacons, Newquists and Robinsons lived at 836, 832 1/2 and 832 North Ridgewood Place, respectively.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2385. 830 North Ridgewood Place Los Angeles, July 1948 [handwritten:] To Bacon 7/'55 [drawn line, circle around "1"] [end handwritten] 1 "Punkie" Bacon 2 L to R: Mrs Bacon, Mr Robinson, Mrs H.H.West with Tommie Newquist, Mrs Robinson 3 Mr Robinson after the weeds 4 Tommie Newquist 5 Bacon and Newquist working on lock 6 Supper on rear lawn of Bacon's home after the Shrine Circus. L to R: Mrs H.H.West, Mrs Newquist, Rudy Newquist. Mrs Newquist, Rudy's mother, Mrs Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Robinson, James Archibald, 1878-1968
Newquist, Thomas Rudolf, 1945-2008

Location

California--Los Angeles

Longitude

34.086341

Latitude

-118.314482

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Residential streets--California--Los Angeles
Neighbors
Maintenance & repair--California--Los Angeles
Driveways--California--Los Angeles
Pruning--California--Los Angeles