Whitaker family poses in front of H. H. West's house on Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles, about 1925

Title: Whitaker family poses in front of H. H. West's house on Hobart Boulevard, Los Angeles, about 1925
Photographer: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created: about 1925
Date: 1925
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection

Description: The Whitaker family poses in front of H. H. West's house on Hobart Boulevard. There are bushes on either side of the front walk. The front windows and door of the house are visible behind the group.
H. H. West's second wife, Mertie Whitaker West, was a member of the Whitaker family.
The negative sleeve identifies the fourth woman from the right, standing, as Marion Whitaker, but she instead appears to be Josie Shaw. Marion Whitaker is more likely the woman sitting at the far right.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1889. Los Angeles, California. Hobart Boulevard. About 1925. 1. 2. Two pictures of a group on the front porch. Left to right, standing: Forrest Whitaker. Lester Shaw. Wes Witherby. Will Shaw. Agnes Whitaker. Edith Shaw. Romayne Shaw. Marion Whitaker. Everett Shaw. Hattie Whitaker. Guy Whitaker. Sitting, Left to right: Eleanor Shaw. Mertie West. Zetta WItherby. Abe Whitaker, rear. Edmond Montfort, front. Frances West. H. H. West, Jr. Glen Whitaker. 2 large films, the same.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
Group portraits
black-and-white photographs
Names: West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998
Whitaker, Glenn Guy, 1919-1998
Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
Whitaker, Agnes Hawley, 1878-1967
Shaw, William Henry, 1870-1960
Athearn, Marion Agnes Whitaker, 1906-1989
Shaw, Everett, 1906-1996
Montfort, Edmond
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Whitaker, George Guy, 1886-1950
Whitaker, Hattie Sutton Morgan, 1886-1982
Shaw, Edith Bowen, 1901-1985
Witherby, Warren Wesley, 1871-1948
Shaw, Josie Whitaker, 1874-1956
Laird, Eleanor Charlotte Shaw, 1920-2005
Witherby, Zetta Bowman, 1875-1957
Shaw, Romayne Richard, 1899-1972
Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972
Whitaker, Abraham, 1848-1934
Shaw, Lester Merle, 1895-1968
Location: California--Los Angeles
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_1889_002
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002hvcvr
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.