Subject: Shaw, Edith Bowen, 1901-1985 / Names: West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: William Shaw chops wood while others gather at their campsite near Rush Creek. There is a pile of wood in the foreground. Edith and Josie Shaw stand at the left. Edith wears a hat and dress. Josie wears pants and a visor. A tent and a car are behind them. The camping kitchen is at the center of the image, including a camp stove, small tables, pots and pans, and dishes. The others sit at a table, while Mertie West serves them. The table is under an awning. There are mountains in the background.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
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.
Date:: about 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
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.
Date:: [about 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Whitaker family gathers in Alhambra Park. The children, posing in the front, are eating candy. The head of an unidentified man is visible just behind Mertie West. There is another child visible in the background. There are palm trees behind the family.
Date:: [about 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West's second wife, Mertie Whitaker West, was a member of the Whitaker family.
Date:: [about 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A group photograph, from left to right, of Mrs. Culp, Edith Shaw, Mertie Whitaker, Zetta Witherby, Josie Shaw and Agnes Whitaker all standing in a line and looking towards the left. The women stand in a line from shortest to tallest, resting their hands on the shoulders of the woman standing in front of them. They all stand in profile, facing towards the ocean at left. They turn their heads to glance back to a camera to the left of the photographer of this photograph. The shoreline passes behind them on an upward angle from left to right.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West, Edith Shaw, and Agnes Whitaker stand around a table at Convict Lake. They appear to be preparing food. There is a hat hanging on a tree in the background.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West, Edith Shaw, and Agnes Whitaker next to a temporary camping kitchen at Convict Lake. The women are washing and drying dishes. The kitchen is covered by an awning. There are cans of food and coffee on the shelves, as well as a milk crate, a lamp, and other objects.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West and her family pose on a snowy incline in Yosemite National Park near the Tioga summit. H. H. West Jr. and Forrest Whitaker hold handfuls of snow. The three women sit on the ground. Romayne Shaw holds the little girl's hand. There are trees and terrain not covered with snow in the background.
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West and her family pose in front of a small waterfall along Lee Vining Creek on the Tioga Grade (probably the Tioga Pass Road, State Route 120). The waterfall runs down the rocks directly behind them. There are plants growing around it.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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