Subject: Fishing--California / Location: California--Mammoth Lakes - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Frances West, Ted McClellan and Elizabeth West hanging around the campsite near the base of a mountainside. Frances and Elizabeth stand at center and to the right of the back end of a vehicle. Frances stands closest to the car and looks down at something in her hands. Elizabeth stands to the right of Frances. She wears a bonnet and holds a fishing rod. Her other hand rests on her hip. A pot sits on the ground in front of her. The girls stand behind about 15 fish hanging from string. The string is attached to the car at left, is supported by a stick at center and continues out of the photograph at right. Ted McClellan stands behind and between the girls in the near distance. He leans against the driver's side of another car and looks downward. He wears a hat and holds a strap in his hands. A child (maybe Ted McClellan's son) stands to the left and behind Frances with his back to camera. Mountains rise in the background. A person's shadow enters the image at the bottom of the photograph on the left. A white blur cuts through the shadow.
Date:: 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A lopsided photograph of H. H. West posing with trout caught from Sherwin Creek. H. H. West stands at center and appears to lean to the left. He looks off to the left as he holds out a stick in front of him with both hands from which 5 trout hang from their mouths. The stick is skewered through the mouths of the trout. Tall brush stands behind and to the right of H. H. West. A pine stands in the distance, left-of-center.
Date:: [circa 1922]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: At right, H. H. West holds the end of a string of trout and cigar while he looks to the camera. He stands in front of a boulder. The string extends to the left side of the image. In the center, about fifteen total trout hang from the string. A stick standing left-of-center supports the string of trout. The string is attached to a parked car near the rear tire. Frances West, Elizabeth West and Ted McClellan stand in line extending back from behind the stick. The girls wear similar printed dresses with bonnets and all three face the general direction of H. H. A car that faces left is parked behind and to the left of them. A mountain rises in the background at left.
Date:: 1915
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West was H. H. West's second wife. Forrest Whitaker was Mertie's brother.
Date:: August 29 to September 7, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: The West, Schmitz and Scullin camping party fishes on the west (or upper end) of Convict lake near where Convict Creek enters the lake. Two men sit with their backs to camera on the rocky shore nearest to camera and three more men sit on a rocky shore in the distance. The two men in the foreground sit on the shore and face the lake, which extends to the right. The man at left wears a bucket hat and suspenders. The man at right sits with a bag next to his left hip. At left, a basket and fishing rod sit on the rocks. Beyond this duo, three men sit in the distance and face right towards the lake. Two men are visible to the left of the man in suspenders in the foreground and the other is visible to his right. A mountain rises from the lake's far bank in the distance.
Date:: 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Frances West stands center while holding up a large fish by the gill in her right hand and holding up a stick with several small fish in her left hand. She looks to the ground and wears a white bucket hat and a onesie. Hills rise from the center on either side behind her.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A blurry photograph of Charlie Stavnow either kneeling or wading through the tall grasses that line the bank of Convict Creek to fish for trout. He is in profile right-of-center and faces towards the left. The creek winds from the upper left side of the image, juts out to the right and then winds down to the lower left corner. Charles is on the right of the creek. An open, grassy meadow stretches behind Stavnow and the creek towards snow-covered mountains that rise at center and left.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Elizabeth West stands center while holding up a line with several small fish in her right hand and holding up a larger fish by the gill in her left hand. She looks to the camera and wears a white bucket hat and a pinstriped onesie. A hillside rises on the right behind her.
Date:: 1914
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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