According to the negative sleeve, this photographic negative was taken in Alexandria, Virginia. The street signs in this image are legible and do not match the geography of Alexandria. They correlate to the geography of Boston, which was also visited by the West's on their "Eastern trip" in October, 1947.
Photograph of Mertie West posing while visiting the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center. She faces left but turns her head towards camera. The narrow, stone-paved walkway she stands upon enters frame from the lower left corner and extends on an upward angle to the right. On the near side of the walkway, grave markers stand in a row parallel to the walkway. Behind Mertie, the cemetery grounds sprawl into the distance. Grave stones stand in rows that run perpendicular to the walkway. A tomb rises from the ground, behind and to the right of Mertie. Several trees dot the grounds. In the background, a street and buildings are visible lining the cemetery's back edge.
Photograph, from left to right, of a caretaker and Mertie West conversing on a set of stairs at the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. They are seen from an elevated angle. Tiered sets of wide steps extend on an angle along the bottom edge. They cascade downward to the right as they stretch into the distance. At center, the caretaker and Mertie West stand one tier below camera and 3 above street-level. Both pause their conversation and look to the camera. The caretaker rests a hand on a broom standing in front of him. A dustpan sits on the landing in front of Mertie. Behind them, a wrought-iron fence enters frame at left, lining the park's edge, and stops at center where it meets the base of the stairs. Beyond the fence and sidewalk, Monument Square runs parallel to the park's edge. Row houses line the far side of the street in the background.
Photograph of Mertie West strolling through a public, open-air market in Boston. A brick-paved road enters frame along the bottom edge and stretches back to the right. Market visitors walk along the road, obscuring it as it stretches into the distance. Mertie West stands in a gap in the crowd at center. She looks to the camera and holds a paper bag in her hand. A man walks towards camera in the foreground near the left edge. Two men stand along the right edge. Other shoppers mill about behind Mertie at center. Beyond the shoppers, a tall building rises. It enters frame at left and stretches towards the right. Along the left side of the building, an awning extends out over the shoppers. On the right half of the building, signage between rows of windows reads, "BATCHELDER & SNYDER COMPANY [...]."
Photograph of Mertie West posing in front of an announcement board outside of the First Methodist Church in Boston. A brick-paved sidewalk stretches across the foreground, on an incline up to the left. At the back edge of the sidewalk, Mertie West stands, left-of-center, in front of the stone facade of First Methodist Church and looks to camera. The building is viewed close-up. Immediately behind Mertie, a wrought iron fence stretches from center to right. Behind it, a small patio leads back to lattice-pane double window inset into the stone building. Centered on the exterior of the window is an announcement board which reads, "FIRST METHODIST CHURCH FOU[NDED] 1792 SUNDAY SERVICES 9:30 a.m. Italian Sermon by Rev. Giuseppe Merlino Sept. 28th 10:45 a.m. Oct. 5th Rally Day Service World-Wide Holy Communion 'Methodism on the March' National Groups Joining 2:30 p.m. Ukranian Sermon by Rev. Conrad Kosak September 28th 7:30 p.m. October 5th Evening Worship Services with Rev. V.L. Taylor 'A Day at Camp Co-No-Mo' Sermon by Dr. Stroud." The brick exterior of a neighboring building is visible in the background along the left edge.
A slightly out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing while visiting the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center. She faces left but turns her head towards camera. The narrow, stone-paved walkway she stands upon enters frame from the lower left corner and extends on an upward angle to the right. On the near side of the walkway, grave markers stand in a row, parallel to the walkway. Behind Mertie, the cemetery grounds sprawl into the distance. Grave stones stand in rows that run perpendicular to the walkway. A tomb rises from the ground, behind and to the right of Mertie. Several trees dot the grounds. In the background, a street and buildings are visible lining the cemetery's back edge. Hazy patches of white obscure the image along its right edge.
According to the negative sleeve, this photograph was taken in New Orleans. The church standing in the distance is Old North Church in Boston. The Wests visited both Boston and New Orleans during their "Eastern trip" in October, 1947.
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing outside the First Church of Christ, Scientist's southern facade in Boston. A brick-paved walkway extends along the bottom edge. Mertie West stands in the near distance at left, along the back edge of the walkway. She stands in profile facing right, but turns her head to the camera. Immediately behind her, a wide, short set of steps, flanked by lampposts on pedestals, descends behind her. From the steps, the walkway stretches back on an angle towards the left side of the church. To the right of the walkway, a small, landscaped lawn sits in front of the church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist stands in the background, off-center to the left. It is viewed at a slight angle from its southern facade. A half-dome, lined with arched windows, extends towards camera. A white haze washes over the majority of the image. Two streaks of bright, white light crisscross at center.
Photograph of Mertie West posing by a produce stands while visiting a public market in Boston. Piles of fruit in crates line the bottom edge. Pears sit in the crates at right. Behind the pears, Mertie West stands, just right-of-center, and smiles to the camera. Behind and to the right of her, other shoppers mill about the market. Horses hitched to carts stand in an angled row behind the shoppers. The carts they haul are laden with crates. Behind the horse-drawn wagons, a long, covered market stand stretches across the image. Tall buildings rise in the background at right.
![Mertie West walks past a construction site and towards Richmond Street, [Boston], 1947](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002j3s89/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
![Mertie West poses on a sidewalk in the North End with Old North Church in the background, [Boston], 1947](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002j3t0n/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
