Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: California--Mono County - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West fixing her hair while standing in the group's campsite near Rock Creek. Mertie stands right-of-center, in profile, and facing to the left. She looks towards a small mirror to the left that is propped up on sticks. A hat hangs above the mirror. Clothes and rags hang from rungs made of sticks to the left of the mirror. Behind Mertie, the campsite is strewn with dining utensils and food supplies either sitting atop crates or resting on tables. A canopy hangs over a portion of the campsite at far right. A large rocks sits in the foreground in the lower left corner.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of the West, Whitaker and Shaw party's makeshift shaving and grooming stand set up in their campsite near Rock Creek. The dressing table stands at center and is constructed out of sticks. A hat an a mirror hang off of a supporting stick at left. Shaving implements and a second mirror sit atop the table. A wash basin sits on a large tree root near the ground in front of the table. Rags and towels hang behind the table. At right, a stream flows behind the table. Trees stand in the background at left and on the opposite bank of the stream at right.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Distant view of the West, Whitaker and Shaw campsite near Rock Creek and Toms Place. A canopy stands in the distance at center. In front of the campsite, a large, leaning pine tree rises out of the ground, just left-of-center, and leans up and over to the right, obscuring part of the campsite. In the foreground, rocks and low brush cover the ground. Trees stand in the background.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Forrest Whitaker fishing in Lee Vining Creek. Forrest Whitaker stands just left-of-center with his back turned to the camera. He stands with one foot in the water and the other propped on a rock in the creek. He holds his fishing rod out to the right. The creek flows around him in the foreground. Rocks and downed trees lie in the stream to his left. Trees line the opposite bank as they extend into the distance.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of 2 cars parked in the near distance in the yard in front of Fales Hot Springs. Grass covers the yard in the foreground. Two cars are parked side-by-side in the near distance at center. They are viewed at an angle from the rear and the side. Beyond the cars, a saltbox house stands at center. It is viewed from the front and the side and faces right. Over a front door at left, signage reads, "Fales Hot Springs SALOON." An outbuilding stands behind the house at left. An ivy covered building stands at far right. Hills stand in the background.
Date:: 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West sitting on rock and looking into a small mirror propped up on the rock. Mertie sits center and faces towards the left. She hunches over slightly to look into a mirror that sits upon the rock. It looks as though she holds thread between her hands, possibly to fix the turban she wears on her head. She is surrounded by wilderness that stretches into the distance.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: According to the negative sleeve, the group is identified from left to right. This is incorrect, from left to right they are: Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker, Josie Shaw and Forrest Whitaker.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Josie Shaw and Mertie West standing in their campsite under a canopy and near dining tables. The two women stand left-of-center. Mertie West stands slightly forward of Josie Shaw and looks to the camera. Josie Shaw stands behind her. She faces right, but turns to look to the camera as she appears to be holding a cloth or towel. To their left, dining tables stand with pots sitting atop them. Behind Josie, at left, shelving stores their supplies and towels hang to dry. At Mertie's right, chairs sit in row. A stick stands upright at center to prop up the canopy. A jacket and hat hang from the top of the stick. In the foreground, pots and pans litter the ground at left. In the distance at right, another tent is pitched.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, Forrest Whitaker and H. H. West posing in their "formal" dress before attending a dinner with the Guptills at a nearby camp near Rock Creek. Both men stand atop rock-covered ground and stand with their backs to the camera to display their "coattails." They have embellished their camp clothes to appear to be formal dress. Trees and low brush stretch into the distance ahead of them.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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