Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch, who climbed Mount Whitney, pose holding walking sticks, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch, who climbed Mount Whitney, pose holding walking sticks, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

[circa October 1935]

Date

1935-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Nell Herring and Mary Nan Gooch pose holding walking sticks. Both have one foot up on an object (Herring, a box of some sort, Gooch, two buckets) and they both wear boots and shorts.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Girl Conquerors of Mt. Whitney: They challenge any other girls to equal their record. Nell Herring, left, and Mary Nan Gooch, right, students of Compton Junior College, who recently climbed Mt. Whitney alone to the height of 14,496.811 feet. They hiked in from Giant Forest and, among other adventures, lost their camera when it fell off their pack donkey's back. They say they doubt whether the trip has been made before by two unaccompanied girls under 20 [Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 1935: 8]
Handwritten on negative: Mary Nan Gooch. Nell Herring.
Text from negative sleeve: 3050- Nell Herring, left, Mary Nan Gooch, right, of Compton. Only girls to climb Mt. Whitney. 11-30-35. [Stamped:] Dec...1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Herring, Nell
Whitney, Mount (Calif.)
Gooch, Mary Nan

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mountaineering--California