Genre: black-and-white photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: California--Venice - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View of the West's beach cottage. The cottage has a small porch on the first floor and a larger second-story porch. A window toward the back is propped open. There appears to be a porch at the back of the cottage, as well. Another cottage with clothes hanging on a line in front is visible at the right, and another cottage is at the left of the image. There are utility wires above and a wooden sidewalk in the foreground.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: View of the West's beach cottage. The cottage has a small porch on the first floor and a larger second-story porch. A sign reading, "For rent Allen & Kristensen... Windward Ave" hangs on the front of the cottage. The two windows on the side of the cottage are propped open. There are other cottages visible at the left and right and buildings visible beyond. There is a wooden sidewalk in the foreground.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: View of the Ship Café along with the Abbot Kinney Pier and the crowds in front. Flags hang all over the restaurant, which was built in the shape of a ship. There are other buildings at both the left and right of the image.
Date:: about 1910
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: The battleships that the people were waiting for were part of President Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, which passed through Santa Monica Bay on April 25, 1908.
Date:: April 25, 1908
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: People sit on the beach watching the passing fleet of battleships. Steam streams from the ships, which are visible in the distance. The people sit in the sand, on a chair, and on a bench. There is a sign in the sand at the left.
Date:: April 25, 1908
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mr. Waddack poses in front of H. H. West's beach cottage. He wears a suit and tie and has a watch chain in his breast pocket. There are utility poles throughout with wires overhead. At Mr. Waddack's right there is what appears to be a wooden walkway, and at the right there is sand. There are other cottages in the distance.
Date:: about 1903
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Based on the ages of Frances West and Elizabeth West in this image, the date has been estimated as about 1908, rather than about 1910.
Date:: [about 1908]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mary West stands on the beach. Her skirt is folded up above her knees. A pier is visible at the left of the image.
Date:: about 1903
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mary West sits on a wooden bench eating lunch with her daughter, Elizabeth West, and her in-laws, George and Wilhelmina West. Both women wear large hats. Elizabeth is sitting on the long pile of wood next to the picnic baskets. George and Wilhelmina sit on wooden stumps. There are other wood planks at the right. In the background, there are buildings with scaffolding in front of them and wagons parked in front. There are utility poles and wires throughout.
Date:: about 1903
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mary A. West (Mary Adelbert Teel West Shepard) was H. H. West's first wife and the mother of his children.
Date:: about 1903
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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