Subject: Duck shooting--California / Names: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958 / Subject: Duck shooting--California - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right of Keeper E. D. Hardy, Theodore "Pete" Lohman, H. H. West and Frank Mellus posing with ducks during a shoot at the Sunset Gun Club. The group is clustered together on an embankment, left-of-center. Keeper Hardy kneels at far left and looks to the camera. Next to him, Theodore Lohman stands and holds a gun over his shoulder as he looks towards the left. H. H. West stands to the right of Lohman and looks to the camera. In front of H. H. West, Frank Mellus kneels on the ground while handling the ducks. He faces towards the left and looks to the camera. Several ducks lie on the ground in front of the group. Behind them, a pond stretches into the distance.
Date:: November 25, 1916
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of H. H. West standing near a blind on the shooting grounds of the Sunset Gun Club and holding onto a rifle and ducks. H. H. West stands at center, on an embankment that stretches across the foreground, and leans forward while facing slightly towards the right. He holds the barrel of a rifle in one hand and from the other, a couple ducks dangle towards the ground. Ducks lie on the ground in front of him, piled up next to the blind. The blind is surrounded by tall grasses and chicken wire in the lower right corner. Behind him, a large pond sprawls into the distance.
Date:: October 31, 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Rover (Guy West's dog) and H. H. West sitting in the tules near Watson Spur hunting for ducks. Rover sits at left behind H. H. West. H. H. West is viewed in profile as he sits among the tules with his gun at the ready. Both he and Rover face right. A dead duck lies on top of flattened down tules in front of H. H. West at center. A shadow of someone's head enters the photograph from the bottom edge.
Date:: 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West poses for photograph while holding what appears to be a couple dozen or more teal (ducks) from cords. In each hand, he holds a large group of the ducks which are securely tied up with cords and hang below his grip. His right harm hangs down to the side and he lifts his left arm up just below shoulder height. He poses for the photograph while standing in front of the driver side of a parked car and looks to the left. Behind the car, a single story dwelling with a front porch stands in the background.
Date:: October 1, 1909
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West and Keeper E. D. Hardy posing by the stile in the wetlands at the Sunset Gun Club. H. H. West stands at left and faces towards the camera. He holds onto the barrel of a gun that stands on the ground. To the right of him at center, Keeper E. D. Hardy stands on the lower step of the stile. Strings of ducks hang draped from his shoulders as he looks to the camera. Wire fencing stretches to the right from the stile and out-of-frame. Behind them, marshlands extend into the distance.
Date:: December 16, 1916
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of H. H. West standing on the edge of Watson Lake with his rifle and Guy West's dog during a duck hunt. H. H. West stands in the near distance, left-of-center. He faces towards the left and holds a rifle, which he points downward. The dog stands on the ground in front of him, also facing left. H. H. stands at the very edge of the small lake. Its near bank stretches across the image behind H. H. Reeds rise out of the water near and parallel to the edge. The lake stretches into the distance towards the right. The far banks are lined with tall grasses. A dark shadow passes across a large swath of the lower left corner, obscuring it.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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