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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A distant view of the Jones' residence in Red Bluff. From left to right, Zella Jones, William H. Jones and Lavinia Jones stand behind the picket fence that encloses their property on the opposite side of the street. A dirt road runs horizontally across the image in the foreground. A sidewalk and the picket fence run behind and parallel to the dirt road. The Joneses stand behind the fence left-of-center. Trees stand in the yard behind them. Their homes stands at left behind some of the trees.
A distant view, from left to right, of Lavinia (Kellum) Jones, William H. Jones and Zella Jones on the front porch of their home in Red Bluff. The front of the house is viewed at an angle from the front lawn. Four square posts support the porch. Lavinia Jones stands between the two left posts and behind a hammock. She stands to the right of a window and to the left of the front door. William H. Jones sits in a rocking chair just up the front steps and in front of the front door. Zella Jones stands to the right of the steps and to the left of a post. A window and bicycle are behind her. A water spigot stands in the yard in front of the house. A hose connected to the spigot winds its way across the yard.
Photograph of the boat, "Yukon Bell" sitting in the Yukon River, moored to the bank. The rock- and log-strewn bank stretches through the foreground on an upward angle from the lower left corner to the right. The Yukon River extends from the left side of the bank and into the distance. Along the bank, left-of-center, the boat "Yukon Bell" floats in the water. A rope tethers it to the bank at right. The boat is viewed at a slightly elevated angle from the side. The front of the boat faces right. A horizontal bar with attached fish hooks stretches through the center line of the boat. "YUKON BELL," is printed along the starboard side of the boat. The Yukon River and surrounding landscape stretch into the background.
Photograph of the Yreka jail viewed from across the street. A dirt street passes across the foreground on an upward angle from the lower right corner towards the left and out of frame. On the right, or far side of the road, the jail stands on the street corner. A stone wall encircles the building; a doorway is cut into the middle of the side of the wall that runs parallel to the street. Beyond the stone wall, the brick jail rises and peeks above the wall. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the side; it faces towards the street. A decorative chimney rises from each corner of the roof. The building sits on a street corner. Another street stretches behind the building and a house stands on the far side of the cross street, left-of-center.
Photograph of Yreka Bakery standing along the side of a dirt street passing through Yreka. A dirt street stretches through the image on an upward angle from the lower left corner and receding into the distance at right. The bakery lines the left side of the road. It is of lumber construction and is viewed at an angle. The short side is nearest to camera at left and the long side runs parallel to the road. A tall stovepipe extends from the center of the roof and out of frame. Signage atop the roof reads, "BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY." Fencing extends from the long side of the building, towards the left and out-of-frame. Posters are affixed to the side of the fence; they read: [first sign unreadable], "MASTIFF PLUG CUT FOR THE HAIR [... ?] MASTIFF PLUG CUT [... ?]," and "[SMGEE?] PLUM LONG CUT." Beyond the far side of the bakery, a house lines the road. Trees and utility poles stand along the right side of the road as it stretches towards the horizon.
Yard with trees and water spigot on the West family's former property. There is a bucket next to the spigot. A fence surrounds the yard and there is another house at the right. At the left of the negative there is a black strip and the other side there is what appears to be the print of a different image, which includes trees.
Photograph of Wes Witherby standing beside the trunk of his car while stopping for lunch in Olancha (formerly Olanche). Wes Witherby stands, left-of-center, with his back to camera. To the right of him, his car is parked. It is viewed at an angle from the rear and the side; it faces back to the right. The trunk of the car stands open in front of Wes Witherby. It is packed with boxes. The rear passenger door is also open. A purse hangs from an interior door handle. In the background, buildings in partial view stand at far right and far left. Silhouetted mountains are visible in the far distance at left.
Photograph of Wes Witherby posing beside the trunk of his car while stopping along the grade going to Panamint Valley. Wes Witherby stands, left-of-center, with his hand to his hip. He props a foot up on the rear bumper as he looks to the camera. To the right of him, his car is parked along a dirt road. It is viewed at an angle from the rear and the side; it faces back to the right. The road stretches on an upward angle from the lower left corner and to the right. A desert landscape stretches into the distance behind Wes and the car.
Wright Prickett plays with Richard Shaw in Victory Park, in the Arroyo Seco area. Both of them are in motion and slightly blurred. Other people are visible at the left of the photograph. There are trees, cars, and picnic tables in the background.
An out-of-focus photograph of Wright Prickett, Jr. standing either on or in front of a practice putting green at the Sunset Canyon Country Club in Burbank. Wright Prickett, Jr. stands at center and looks to the camera as he rests a hand in his jacket pocket. A practice putting green stretches behind him and a golfer is barely visible putting behind and to the left of Wright. Trees dot the course at left and branches hang above Wright at right. A sand trap stands behind a small hill in the distance at right. A brush-covered hillside rises in the far distance and stretches across the background.
Photograph of a wrecked truck sitting on the side of the road, viewed by H. H. West on his return trip home from visiting Frank Lemberger in Oakland. The truck is viewed at an angle. The front end of the vehicle faces left and the side extends towards the right. Damage can be seen on the front end and cab. A man sits behind the front end of the car near a row of houses. A tire sits to the left of him. A dirt road extends from the left up to the right in the foreground. A house stands in the background on the right. Additional houses stand in a row as they recede back to the left from the house at right.
Photograph of a wrecked Southern Pacific Railroad engine car sitting on train tracks at River Station. The car sits on tracks, left-of-center, and is viewed from the rear. It is open and the boiler is visible inside the car. Damage appears along the right side of the car. The rear left tire sits lopsided on the tracks. Railroad tracks run parallel to the car to the left of it. In the distance at right, railroad engines sit in the round house.