Tommie Newquist rides his tricycle along a walkway, Los Angeles, 1948

Item Overview

Title

Tommie Newquist rides his tricycle along a walkway, Los Angeles, 1948

Photographer

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

Date Created

July, 1948

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

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.
Photograph of Tommie Newquist posing while riding his tricycle along a residence's walkway on North Ridgewood Place in Los Angeles. At center, Tommie Newquist rides his tricycle along a walkway and towards the camera. The walkway enters frame along the bottom edge at right and stretches back towards the left, where it meets North Ridgewood Place. Portions of a lawn surround it. A sidewalk stretches directly behind Tommie, running parallel to North Ridgewood Place in the mid-ground. Cars park along North Ridgewood Place and residences stand along the opposite side of the street. Opaque patches of white occupy the lower left and lower right corners.

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

Subjects

Residential streets--California--Los Angeles
Neighbors
Bicycles & tricycles--California--Los Angeles
Play (Recreation)--California--Los Angeles

Names

Newquist, Thomas Rudolf, 1945-2008

Location

California--Los Angeles

Longitude

34.086391

Latitude

-118.314517

Resource type

still image