Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist, Maurine Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon pose while supping in the Bacons' backyard, Los Angeles, 1948

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist, Maurine Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon pose while supping in the Bacons' backyard, 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

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 Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist, Maurine Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon posing while they take supper in the Bacons' backyard on North Ridgewood Place in Los Angeles. The group is situated in the near distance at center. The two children sit at a children's table in front of the larger dining table at center. Tommie Newquist sits at left and "Punkie" Bacon sits at the front end of the children's table. Both look to the camera. Beyond them, from left to right, Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist and Maurine Bacon sit in a semi-circle around the far side of the dining table and look to the camera. The side of a house stands along the right edge and stretches back. The small yard is lined by a fence at left that extends behind the group and meets the house at center. Utility poles and the roofs of neighboring houses are visible in the background at left. Square patches of white dot the bottom edge and wide band of white extends upward along the right edge.

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
Group portraits
black-and-white photographs

Names

Newquist, Eva Astrid Marie Bjornstahl, 1907-1990
Bacon, Madeline Elizabeth, b. 1942
Newquist, Anna Maria Johnson, 1872-1958
Newquist, Thomas Rudolf, 1945-2008
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Bacon, Maurine E. Stover, 1917-2009
Newquist, Rudolf L., 1904-1960

Location

California--Los Angeles

Longitude

34.086519

Latitude

-118.31418

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles
Neighbors
Backyards--California--Los Angeles
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles
Dinner parties--California--Los Angeles