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Mertie West looks northwest across Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, 1942

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West standing behind the parapet of an outlook along the south rim of Crater Lake and looking northwest. A pathway stretches across the observation area on an upward, arcing angle from left to right. A stone parapet lines the back edge of the area. Mertie stands, left-of-center, on the near side of the wall with her back to the camera. She gazes out towards the lake in the distance. Beyond the parapet, a pine stands along the right edge of the image and a few bare trees stand along the left edge, creating a frame. Crater Lake sits in the distance at center. Wizard Island juts into the lake from the left, behind the trees. Mountains and ridges line the rim on the far side of the lake.
Date:
July 1, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West looks northwest across Crater Lake, Crater Lake National Park, 1942

Mertie West poses on the ship's top deck, Seattle vicinity, 1946

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing on the top deck of a ship en route from Seattle to Alaska. Mertie West stands at center and looks to the camera. In front of her, a hand crank juts into the foreground from the right. The deck floor that Mertie stands upon extends on an upward angle from left to right. Behind Mertie, an upper deck cabin stands. A door sits behind and to the right of Mertie. Single portholes are inset on both sides of the door. Atop the cabin, a sign reading, "ALASKA STEAMSHI[P]," extends out-of-frame at right.
Date:
August 3, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West poses on the ship's top deck, Seattle vicinity, 1946

Mertie West poses in front of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, 1947

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing outside the First Church of Christ, Scientist's southern facade in Boston. A brick-paved walkway extends along the bottom edge. Mertie West stands in the near distance at left, along the back edge of the walkway. She stands in profile facing right, but turns her head to the camera. Immediately behind her, a wide, short set of steps, flanked by lampposts on pedestals, descends behind her. From the steps, the walkway stretches back on an angle towards the left side of the church. To the right of the walkway, a small, landscaped lawn sits in front of the church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist stands in the background, off-center to the left. It is viewed at a slight angle from its southern facade. A half-dome, lined with arched windows, extends towards camera. A white haze washes over the majority of the image. Two streaks of bright, white light crisscross at center.
Date:
October, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West poses in front of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, 1947

Members of the West family tend to George M. West and Wilhelmina West's graves, Los Angeles, 1936

Description:
Members of the West family tend to George M. West and Wilhelmina West's graves. Wilson West and Richard West stand while the women both crouch down. There are gravestones beyond them. There are palm trees and other trees in the background, as well as houses and cars.
Date:
May 30, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Members of the West family tend to George M. West and Wilhelmina West's graves, Los Angeles, 1936

Forrest Whitaker, Abraham Whitaker, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Mertie West sit in a Willys-Knight car, Yosemite National Park, about 1929

Description:
Forrest Whitaker, Abraham Whitaker, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Mertie West sit in a Willys-Knight car in Yosemite National Park. Forrest Whitaker sits in the driver's seat. The two men wears hats, while the women and the boy wear what appear to be visors.
Date:
[about 1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Forrest Whitaker, Abraham Whitaker, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Mertie West sit in a Willys-Knight car, Yosemite National Park, about 1929

Mertie West and others walk around the buildings in Circle, Circle, 1946

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West (center) and others strolling through the town of Circle, Alaska. Overgrown grasses in the foreground at left line a dirt and gravel road that enters frame at right. Mertie West walks along this road in the distance, right-of-center. One man stands behind and to the left of Mertie. Three other people stand in the overgrown grasses that line the right side of the road. Beyond them, 2 log buildings stand in a line that recedes into the distance. The taller of the two buildings stands nearer to camera along the right edge. Both buildings are viewed at an angle and face left. The Yukon River flows horizontally across the image in the background, disappearing behind the log buildings at right.
Date:
August 20, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West and others walk around the buildings in Circle, Circle, 1946

Agnes Whitaker, Mertie West and Forrest Whitaker pose on the driveway leading up to the Siemsen's cabin near Gray's Camp, Big Bear Lake, 1948

Description:
Photograph of Agnes Whitaker, Mertie West and Forrest Whitaker standing at the top of a driveway leading up to the Siemsen's cabin at Big Bear Lake. They are seen from a low-angle view. A wide dirt drive, lined by loose rocks, enters frame along the lower right edge, curving slightly as it slopes upward towards center. At right and atop the small incline, stands, from left to right, Agnes Whitaker, Mertie West and Forrest Whitaker. All 3 face slightly left as they look to the camera. Behind them, the ground slopes upward again. A cabin (partial view) stands behind them, entering frame from the right. To the left of the cabin, Elizabeth (left) and Al (right) Siemsen stand amidst a cluster of loose rocks. At far left, building materials sit in a pile. Trees line the background. Opaque white patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners, dissipating as they extend upwards along their respective edges.
Date:
May, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Agnes Whitaker, Mertie West and Forrest Whitaker pose on the driveway leading up to the Siemsen's cabin near Gray's Camp, Big Bear Lake, 1948

Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker and Forrest Whitaker launching their boat from the wharf, Big Bear Lake, 1948

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker and Forrest Whitaker sitting in their boat as they launch from the wharf and into Big Bear Lake. The hull of another boat sits in partial view along the bottom edge in the foreground. Behind it, in the near distance at left, the boat occupied by Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker and Forrest Whitaker enters frame from the left. It appears to sit on a ramp as it angles into the water from the left. Mertie West stands towards the front of the boat at left. She is in profile, facing right. Ahead of her, Agnes Whitaker sits at center. She casts her gaze downwards as she shifts supplies around the boat. At the boat's stern, Forrest Whitaker sits. He faces slightly right and tinkers with the boat's motor. Beyond them, Big Bear Lake stretches across the image and into the distance. Silhouetted mountains rise from the opposite shore. Opaque, wide, white patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners, dissipating as they extend upwards along their respective edges.
Date:
May, 1948
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West, Agnes Whitaker and Forrest Whitaker launching their boat from the wharf, Big Bear Lake, 1948

Mertie West exits a restroom at Lake Mead, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West, taken as she exits the women's restroom at Lake Mead. Mertie is at center and adjusts her eyeglasses as she steps down to exit the restroom. The restroom extends to her right and is supported atop railway ties. It is made of wood and has a low-pitched roof, with 3 sets of double support beams, extends around the building. On the underside of the roof at right, wiring runs along the side of the structure. Multiple cars are parked in the near distance at left and a desert landscape with mountains occupy the background.
Date:
March, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West exits a restroom at Lake Mead, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Pinkie Lemberger, Mertie Whitaker and Nella West hold onto their hats while standing on a pier, Santa Monica, about 1900

Description:
Photograph, from left to right, of Ellen Lorene "Pinkie" Lemberger, Mertie Whitaker and Nella West standing on a pier at Santa Monica's North Beach while holding onto their hats. The pier spans the foreground and stretches back on an upward angle from the lower right corner towards the left. The women stand in a semi-circle on the pier, left-of-center. Pinkie Lemberger stands at left and faces towards the right. She places a hand to her hat. Mertie Whitaker stands at center and further back from the camera. She smiles to the camera as she places both hands behind her head. At right, Nella West stands in profile, facing left. She too raises a hand to her hat. The beach on the south side of the pier sprawls behind them in the distance at right. Nearest to camera, ocean waves roll onto the shore. The beach stretches horizontally across the image at right. Sitting back from the water at right, the Arcadia Hotel stands.
Date:
[circa 1900]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Pinkie Lemberger, Mertie Whitaker and Nella West hold onto their hats while standing on a pier, Santa Monica, about 1900

Mertie West stands at the edge of Emerald Pool, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

Description:
Distant photograph of Mertie West standing along the edge of Emerald Spring in the Norris Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park. The spring sits in the distance at center. Mertie West stands in front of it, left-of-center, with her back to the camera. Steam rises from the spring and wafts towards the left. In the foreground at right, a signpost for the spring reads, "EMERALD POOL THE TEMPERATURE OF THIS POOL IS LOW ENOUGH TO PERMIT THE GROWTH OF A YELLOW TYPE OF HOT WATER ALGAE ON THE SIDES OF THE BOWL. THE NATURAL BLUE COLOR OF THE NEARLY PURE WATER BLENDS WITH THE YELLOW BACKGROUND TO PRODUCE THE BEAUTIFUL EMERALD-GREEN COLOR. THE TIMBERS IN THE BOTTOM WERE THROWN IN BY TOURISTS MANY YEARS AGO AND FLOATED ON THE SURFACE UNTIL THEY BECAME WATER-LOGGED AND SANK. THEY HAVE SINCE BECOME CEMENTED TO THE BOTTOM BY DEPOSITS OF GEYSERITE." A pine-covered hill- or mountainside rises on an upward across the background from left to right. A streak of white stretches across the image on an upward angle from the lower right corner towards the left.
Date:
June 23, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West stands at the edge of Emerald Pool, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

Mertie West feeds ducks at a lake in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1947

Description:
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West standing along the bank of a lake in Stanley Park and feeding ducks. Mertie West stands in the near distance at right. The bank she stands upon arcs back from the bottom edge and to the right. Mertie stands near the bank's edge, in profile and facing left. She holds a bag in the crook of her elbow. Ahead of her, the lake expands through the image. A dozen or so ducks cluster together in the water, just in front of Mertie. Boats sail the lake in the distance at center. The opposite bank lines the background and silhouetted mountains rise in the far distance.
Date:
July 1, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West feeds ducks at a lake in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1947