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View of the West's bus driver posing next to Pioneer cabin at Igloo Creek, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Description:
Photograph of the West's bus driver posing in front of Pioneer cabin at Igloo Creek in Denali National Park and Preserve. An overgrown, grassy slope slopes upward and back from the foreground. A clear path cuts through it at right. The West's bus driver stands in this pathway and looks to the camera. Behind him at the top of the slope, stands Pioneer cabin, off-center to the right. The camera looks up towards the log cabin that is viewed at an angle from the front and the side. It faces left. A porch extends from the front of the cabin and is strewn with gear and supplies. Open rafters hang over the porch and store additional supplies. Pines stand in the background and a low mountain rises in the distance at center.
Date:
August 17, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
View of the West's bus driver posing next to Pioneer cabin at Igloo Creek, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Mertie West stands in front of a shop window, Juneau, 1946

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West looking at charts posted in the storefront window of Pan American World Airways. A street stretches across the foreground on an upward angle from right to left. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center with her back to camera. She faces the shop window and looks at something posted in the window. The window extends to Mertie's right. Etched in the window it reads, "PAA The System of the Flying Clippers PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS." To Mertie's left, the front door sits back from the sidewalk. Etched into the glass of the door, it reads, "ALASKA SERVICE SEATTLE KETCHIKAN JUNEAU WHITEHORSE FAIRBANKS GALENA NOME McGRATH BETHEL." Another window and door sit to the left of that door. In the window at left, it reads, "CANADIAN PACIFIC." A doorway also stands along the right frame. An awning in the streamline moderne-style hovers over the sidewalk.
Date:
September 12, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West stands in front of a shop window, Juneau, 1946

Juneau Cold Storage Co. Inc. and other dockside buildings viewed from a ship, Juneau, 1946

Description:
Photograph of Juneau Cold Storage Co., Inc. and surrounding dockside buildings, as viewed from the West's ship docked in Juneau, Alaska. The scene is viewed from an elevated perspective. In the foreground, the side of the ship stretches vertically along the right edge. Below the ship, a dock lined by a couple of warehouses stretches back at right. To the left of the rightmost building, a dilapidated dock stretches towards the lower left corner. Behind the dilapidated dock at left, piles of lumber sit in front of the "Columbia Lumber Co." building. Tucked behind and between these buildings stands "JUNEAU CO[L]D STORAGE CO. INC. PUBLIC STORAGE," left-of-center. A "Coca-Cola" sign stands on the near corner of the rooftop. Behind all the buildings, a steep, tree-covered hillside rises from right to left. A large, gold mine building stands in tiers on the hillside's slope, partially obscured by fog.
Date:
September 12, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Juneau Cold Storage Co. Inc. and other dockside buildings viewed from a ship, Juneau, 1946

Seaplanes land and take-off in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, 1946

Description:
Photograph of seaplanes landing and taking off in the Gastineau Channel, as viewed from the West's ship in Juneau, Alaska. The landscape is viewed from an elevated perspective. Gastineau Channel spans the width of the image along the bottom edge and stretches back to the left. A seaplane appears to ready for take-off in the near distance, left-of-center. To the right of it, a seaplane floats atop the water; it appears to have just landed. Along the right side of the channel, the Juneau shoreline stretches along the lower right edge and juts towards center behind the planes. In the far distance, mountains rise from Douglas Island.
Date:
September 12, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Seaplanes land and take-off in the Gastineau Channel, Juneau, 1946

View looking towards the summit of Sable Pass, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Description:
Photograph looking towards the summit that rises beyond Sable Pass in Denali National Park and Preserve. Gravel-covered ground stretches across the foreground. A signpost stands beyond it in the near distance, left-of-center. It is viewed at an angle. Two signs are posted; they read, from the top down, "SABLE PASS," and "25 MILES SPEED LIMIT." Antlers decorate the post above and below the signs. Sable Pass stretches beyond the signs and into the distance. Snow-covered summits stand in the distance at right and in the far distance at left.
Date:
August 17, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
View looking towards the summit of Sable Pass, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

View from a grade overloooking a watercourse from the mountains, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph overlooking the mountains and watercourse from the mountains as viewed from atop a grade. In the foreground, a rock formation stands along the left edge. Beyond it, streams flow through a plain that stretches into the distance where snow-covered mountains line the horizon. The landscape is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective.
Date:
August 17, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
View from a grade overloooking a watercourse from the mountains, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Frances L. Wells, Mertie West, Richard Siemsen, Mrs. H. H. West, Jr. and H. H. West, Jr. pose on the front porch of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of: Frances Wells, Mertie West, Richard Siemsen, Anna West and H. H. West, Jr., posing on the front porch steps of H. H. West's residence on North Ridgewood Place. The group is viewed close-up and stands together, off-center to the right. They stand in staggered rows on the steps and all look to the camera. H. H. West, Jr. stands on the lowest level at right. Behind and to the left of him, Anna West stands a step higher. Mertie West stands on the same step to the left of Anna. Behind Mertie and Anna, Richard Siemsen stands on the highest step. Frances Wells stands beside him to the left. The covered porch stretches back behind the group, with the front door standing behind Frances. A few punch holes line the bottom edge at right.
Date:
July 25, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Frances L. Wells, Mertie West, Richard Siemsen, Mrs. H. H. West, Jr. and H. H. West, Jr. pose on the front porch of H. H. West's residence, Los Angeles, 1946