Genre: Portrait photographs / Location: California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Henry H. West, Jr. posing in front the West's residence while home for Christmas. The front lawn stretches across the bottom edge in the foreground. H. H. West, Jr. stands, left-of-center, on a concrete walkway that runs through the image horizontally. He dons his military uniform and rests his arms behind his back as he looks to the camera. Immediately behind him, shrubbery and small trees grow in front of the West's building, extending towards the right. The building is viewed close-up. A window is inset behind and to the right of H. H., Jr. To the left of him, the porch juts out to the left and a cut-out, arched window is inset on the side of the porch.
Date:: [circa December 25, 1944]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of H. H. West, Jr. standing in front of the West's residence on North Ridgewood Place. H. H. West, Jr. stands, left-of-center, and looks to the camera as he rests his hands behind his back. He is dressed in his military uniform. Behind him at right, the front porch of the dwelling stands in partial view. A short set of steps lead up to the arched entry to the porch. Directly behind H. H., Jr., the building extends towards the left. A walkway extends on a diagonal to the left beneath and behind H. H., Jr. A neighboring house stands in the background at left.
Date:: August 10, 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of PFC Jackie Foreman standing and posing outside Clifton's Cafeteria (Pacific Seas) on South Olive Street (no longer standing). Jackie Foreman stands in the foreground, left-of-center. He is dressed in uniform and looks to the camera. In his hands his holds a rolled up magazine (TIME?) and a camera. Directly behind him, a lamppost stands and extends beyond the top frame. The sidewalk extends behind him at center and right, narrowing as it approaches the horizon. People walk and sit along the sidewalk at right. Hovering over the sidewalk is the marquis for Clifton's Cafeteria. The neon lit underside is in full view and is decorated in a flower and vine pattern. A terrazzo-like inlay decorates the sidewalk beneath the marquis. South Olive Street stretches into the distance along the left frame. A couple of cars are parked along the curb behind and to the left of Jackie; they face away from the camera. Tall buildings in the far distance line the opposite side of the street.
Date:: September, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Albert Witzel was a society photographer in Los Angeles and Hollywood in the nineteen teens and twenties. He specialized in portraits of theatrical performers and, later, film stars.
Date:: [circa 1917]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Witzel, Albert Walter, 1879-1929
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Portrait of Raymond Griffith with his wife, Bertha Mann, and their children Michael and Patricia.
Date:: [between 1933-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: The 1930 Census lists Griffith's address as 5220 Lynwood Dr., in Los Feliz.
Date:: [between 1933-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Collection:: Connell (Will) Papers

Description:: Photograph of Richard Siemsen posing in front of H. H. West's Buick outside the West's home on Griffin Avenue. A sidewalk passes across the foreground on an upward angle from right to left. Stone pavers form a walkway that extends through the tree lawn perpendicularly from the sidewalk and towards the street. Richard Siemsen stands at center on the walkway of stone pavers. He looks to the camera and lets his arms hang down by his sides. Behind him, H. H. West's Buick is parked along the curb on Griffin Avenue. It is viewed at an angle from the side, facing right. The nose of the car extends beyond the right frame. Griffin Avenue stretches behind the Buick on an angle. Houses lining the opposite side of the street stand in the background.
Date:: April, 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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