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Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West pose in the courtyard at El Paseo, Santa Barbara, 1945

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode (Sarah Josephine) Witherby and Mertie West posing in the courtyard at El Paseo in Santa Barbara. The group stands in a row at center. Everyone faces slightly left, except Zetta Witherby, who faces forward. Both Wes Witherby and Dode Witherby look to the camera while Zetta Witherby and Mertie West look to the left. Behind them and to the right, a tiled fountain sits low to the ground. A woman sits near the fountain in the distance at right. Another woman walks through the grass behind the group at left. The courtyard stretches behind the group. Spanish Colonial styled buildings line the perimeter of the courtyard in the background.
Date:
April, 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West pose in the courtyard at El Paseo, Santa Barbara, 1945

Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West pose atop the Ubehebe Crater's rim, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode (Sarah Josephine) Witherby and Mertie West posing on the rim of Ubehebe Crater at Death Valley National Monument. A bare and flat hilltop stretches across the foreground. The Witherbys and Mertie West stand back on the elevation at center. All look to the camera. Zetta and Dode both try to keep their hats to their heads as the wind blows. Standing rightmost, Mertie leans against a post on the hillside. Beyond them, the Death Valley landscape stretches into the distance. Salt flats are visible at left and hills rise at right.
Date:
March, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Zetta Witherby, Wes Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West pose atop the Ubehebe Crater's rim, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Zetta Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby stand and look out onto the Lake Mead reservoir, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of: Zetta Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby looking at the Lake Mead reservoir from behind a low wall made of rocks near the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). At the center of the photograph, Wes Witherby stands with his hands in his pockets and his body facing the right to look at the river. Mertie stands behind him to the left and looks towards the camera. Zetta Witherby stands behind Mertie on the left and looks out at the landscape with her hand to her chest. A cloudy sky, canyons and the reservoir occupy the background.
Date:
March, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Zetta Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby stand and look out onto the Lake Mead reservoir, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby visit the Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of Zetta Witherby, Dode (Sarah Josephine) Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby standing among the ruins of the Harmony Borax Works at Death Valley National Monument. The Witherbys and Mertie West stand in the near distance at center. All look to the camera. A stone-built structure stands in partial view along the right frame. Behind Mertie and Wes, a large furnace stands. Beyond the furnace, stone walls stretch out-of-frame at left.
Date:
March, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby, Mertie West and Wes Witherby visit the Harmony Borax Works, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West sit on the veranda at Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Zetta Witherby, Dode (Sarah Josephine) Witherby and Mertie West sitting on the veranda of the Furnace Creek Inn at Death Valley National Monument. The 3 women sit in chairs, left-of-center. Mertie West sits rightmost. She faces center, but gazes towards the left. Zetta Witherby sits leftmost and faces towards the left. Dode Witherby sits at center, behind and between Zetta and Mertie. She faces towards the left, but looks to the camera. They relax on an elevated veranda at the Furnace Creek Inn. The veranda passes through the foreground, arcing back towards the right. The trunk of a palm tree stands behind and to the right of the women. Further beyond them, the rooftops of the inn wind through the image at center and right. Salt flats stretch into the distance at left and mountains rise in the distance at right.
Date:
March, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Zetta Witherby, Dode Witherby and Mertie West sit on the veranda at Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley National Park, 1947

Worm's-eye view of Mertie West standing next to a Christmas present fixed up for Wes Witherby by H. H. West, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West standing next to a tall box that H. H. West fixed up for Wes Witherby to put on Will Shaw's Christmas tree. A tall box decorated for Christmas stands at center, on a sidewalk. The bottom third of the box is decorated with a brick print and extends beyond the bottom edge of the image. Above the brick print, it reads, "It's Christmas ti[me]." Mertie West stands with the box, behind and to the left of it, and looks to the camera. She is viewed from a worm's-eye perspective. At right, a street is peeks from behind the box. Tall palm trees stand in the background.
Date:
December, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Worm's-eye view of Mertie West standing next to a Christmas present fixed up for Wes Witherby by H. H. West, Los Angeles, 1936

Worm's-eye view group portrait of members of the West, Whitaker, Shaw, Prickett and Witherby families standing on a porch, Manhattan Beach, about 1930

Description:
A worm's-eye view photograph, from left to right, of: Josie Shaw, Will Shaw, Abraham Whitaker, Mertie West, Everett Shaw, Wright Prickett, Jr. and Wes Witherby posing in the open window area of a porch for an informal group portrait at Bailey's cottage in Manhattan Beach. The shingle-style cottage is viewed from the ground and the camera looks up towards the group. They stand in a row to the right of column with "1008" on it. A portion of the roof is visible in the upper left corner and a shutter is visible at right.
Date:
[circa 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Worm's-eye view group portrait of members of the West, Whitaker, Shaw, Prickett and Witherby families standing on a porch, Manhattan Beach, about 1930

W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West, Anna West and H. H. West, Jr. pose outside H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of William L. Kinsell, Mertie West, Anna West and H. H. West, Jr. posing on the front lawn of H. H. West's residence on North Ridgewood Place. The group stands in a row in the near distance at center. All look to the camera. They stand on the lawn, just behind the front walkway. The walkway stretches across the image in front of them. It widens as it approaches the right. Behind them and to the left, North Ridgewood Place enters frame at left and stretches back towards center. Houses line both sides of the street as it approaches the distance.
Date:
May, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West, Anna West and H. H. West, Jr. pose outside H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1947

W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West and Frances Wells visit the spirit houses in Eklutna Historical Park, Eklutna, 1946

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West and Frances Wells visiting the Native American spirit houses at Eklutna Historical Park. They are viewed from among the spirit houses. Branches line the left edge of the image in the foreground. Spirit houses sit clustered together near the lower right corner and face towards the back of the image. Beyond the spirit houses, W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West and Frances Wells stand in the near distance at center. W. L. Kinsell faces forward and points towards the left. Mertie also faces forward and looks to the left. Frances faces towards the left. Overgrown grasses stretch behind them towards the Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, which stands in the distance at center. Silhouetted mountains rise across the background.
Date:
August 25, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
W. L. Kinsell, Mertie West and Frances Wells visit the spirit houses in Eklutna Historical Park, Eklutna, 1946

W. L. Kinsell, Frances Wells and Mertie West stand in front of the Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church at Eklutna Historical Park, Eklutna, 1946

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of W. L. Kinsell, Frances Wells and Mertie West standing in front of the Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church in Eklutna Historical Park. Overgrown grasses grow across the foreground. Mertie West stands in the near distance, right-of-center, among the grasses and smiles to the camera. Behind and to the left of her stand W. L. Kinsell and Frances Wells. Frances faces slightly left and looks downward. W. L. Kinsell faces slightly right. The church stands, left-of-center, behind the group. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the side. It is of log construction. A small bell tower sits atop the front entrance to the church. Silhouetted mountains are visible in the background.
Date:
August 25, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
W. L. Kinsell, Frances Wells and Mertie West stand in front of the Old St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church at Eklutna Historical Park, Eklutna, 1946

Wilson West, Mertie West, Eleanor West, Richard West and H. H. West, Jr. posing atop wood planks, Redlands vicinity, 1932

Description:
An informal group photograph, from left to right, of: Wilson West, Mertie West, Eleanor West, Richard West and H. H. West, Jr., all standing in a row and posing atop planks of wood. They stand on planks of wood and logs that extend horizontally beneath them. The planks appear to function as a bridge over a stream. Everyone except H. H. West, Jr. looks to camera. He stands slightly separated from everyone else at right and gazes off towards the left. Woods line the bank behind them.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Wilson West, Mertie West, Eleanor West, Richard West and H. H. West, Jr. posing atop wood planks, Redlands vicinity, 1932

Will Witherby, Dode Witherby, Zetta Witherby and Mertie West pose at Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, 1948

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Will Witherby, Dode (Sarah) Witherby, Zetta Witherby and Mertie West posing outside a building at Los Angeles Airport. The group stands at center. Will Witherby stands leftmost and looks directly to camera. All the women stand facing slightly left. Dode and Zetta Witherby look to camera while Mertie West gazes off to the left. An unknown man stands in the near distance behind and between Zetta and Mertie. The airport's grounds stretch behind the group. A building enters frame at right and stretches back towards the left. Signage on the front of the building reads, "TRANS WO[...]." Opaque white patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners.
Date:
August, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Will Witherby, Dode Witherby, Zetta Witherby and Mertie West pose at Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, 1948

Will Shaw, Mertie West, Alice Prickett and Bertha Keether pose in front of a sign along a trail to Inspiration Point, Los Angeles County, 1932

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Will Shaw, Mertie West, Alice Prickett and Bertha Keethler stopping along the trail to Inspiration Point to pose in front of a trail sign. At left, Will and Mertie do not look to camera. Will faces right and Mertie gazes off to the left. Both Alice and Bertha look to the camera. The group stands off to the right side of a trail and poses in front of a sign that reads, "TO INSPIRATION POINT 1/4 M [right facing arrow]." The trail enters the frame at left and disappears behind the group. A brush-covered mountainside occupies the background as it slopes downward from left to right.
Date:
1932
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Will Shaw, Mertie West, Alice Prickett and Bertha Keether pose in front of a sign along a trail to Inspiration Point, Los Angeles County, 1932

William Shaw, Mertie West, Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand on rocks in Pine Creek while H. H. West Jr. sits in front, Inyo County vicinity, about 1930

Description:
William Shaw, Mertie West, Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand on rocks in Pine Creek while H. H. West Jr. sits in front. Forrest holds a hat. Agnes holds a tree branch in front of her. William and Mertie have a hand on their hips.
Date:
About 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
William Shaw, Mertie West, Agnes and Forrest Whitaker stand on rocks in Pine Creek while H. H. West Jr. sits in front, Inyo County vicinity, about 1930

William Shaw chops wood while others gather at their campsite near Rush Creek, Mono County vicinity, 1929

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
William Shaw chops wood while others gather at their campsite near Rush Creek, Mono County vicinity, 1929

William D. Butler and Mertie West stand on the sidewalk outside the Butler residence, Napa, 1942

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of William D. Butler and Mertie West standing on the sidewalk outside William Butler's home in Napa. The camera looks down the street. William Butler and Mertie West stand at center and both look to camera. William faces the camera and holds a hat in his hand. Mertie faces towards the left and stands slightly nearer to camera to the right of William. The sidewalk extends back behind them. At right, houses stand in a line and recede into the distance; all face the street at left. To the immediate left of William, a car is parked along the curb. It is in partial view with the side visible and the front end facing towards the back of the image. The street at left stretches from left and back towards the horizon at center. Utility poles line the opposite side of the street and power lines stretch overhead.
Date:
July 5, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
William D. Butler and Mertie West stand on the sidewalk outside the Butler residence, Napa, 1942