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Mertie West stands on the front stoop of her and H. H. West's cabin, Rupert, 1942

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West standing on the front step of the motel she and H. H. West stopped at en route from Yellowstone National Park. A landscaped lawn stretches across the foreground. Beyond it at right stands a couple of attached rooms at the motel. Mertie stands in the distance at center in front of the door of the leftmost unit. A car is parked beneath an attached car port on the far right side of the building. Neighboring the motel on the left stands a house obscured by hedges that line the property along the left edge. A car with open doors is parked between the motel and the house. A willow tree stands in the distance at center behind the motel.
Date:
June 25, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West stands on the front stoop of her and H. H. West's cabin, Rupert, 1942

Mertie West sits aboard the Pullman passenger train, Lake Sheridan, Mount Shasta vicinity, 1947

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West sitting aboard the Pullman car, Lake Sheridan, while traveling en route from Banff to Los Angeles. The train car is viewed close-up, from the exterior, and at an angle from the side. The side of the car stretches back on an angle across the image from left to right as it sits on the tracks. It extends beyond the frame at left and right. Mertie West sits behind the third window from the left and looks to the camera. Above the windows, it reads, "[P]ULLMAN," and below the windows it reads, "LAKE SHERIDAN."
Date:
July 3, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West sits aboard the Pullman passenger train, Lake Sheridan, Mount Shasta vicinity, 1947

Mertie West sits aboard the Pullman train, Lake Sheridan, Mount Shasta vicinity, 1947

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West sitting aboard the Pullman car, Lake Sheridan, while traveling en route from Banff to Los Angeles. The train car is viewed close-up, from the exterior, and from a low-angle perspective. The side of the car stretches horizontally across the image. It extends beyond the frame on all sides. Mertie West sits behind the center window and looks down to the camera. Above the windows, it reads, "[P]ULLM[AN]," and below the windows it reads, "LAKE SHERID[AN]."
Date:
July 3, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West sits aboard the Pullman train, Lake Sheridan, Mount Shasta vicinity, 1947

Mertie West and other visitors enter the Ryan Borax Mine, Death Valley National Park vicinity, 1947

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West and other sightseers entering the Ryan Borax Mine. Mertie West stands nearest to camera at right. She walks with her back to the camera. Further ahead of her, 5 others walk into the entrance of a mine. The mine entrance is viewed close-up. Rocks surround the lumber, post-and-lintel entryway. Beyond the entrance, the mine tunnel extends back beneath the rocks and into shadow.
Date:
March, 1947
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West and other visitors enter the Ryan Borax Mine, Death Valley National Park vicinity, 1947

Alfred Siemsen, Richard Siemsen, H. H. West Jr., Elizabeth West Siemsen, Mertie West, and Dorothea Siemsen stand in front of the Siemsen's home, Glendale, about 1929

Description:
Alfred Siemsen, Richard Siemsen, H. H. West Jr., Elizabeth West Siemsen, Mertie West, and Dorothea Siemsen stand in front of the Siemsen's home. H. H. West Jr. holds a cat. Alfred holds what may be a camera. Dorothea holds something to her mouth.
Date:
About 1929
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Alfred Siemsen, Richard Siemsen, H. H. West Jr., Elizabeth West Siemsen, Mertie West, and Dorothea Siemsen stand in front of the Siemsen's home, Glendale, about 1929

Mertie West and other visitors explore the Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

Description:
Photograph looking across the Norris Geyser Basin as Mertie West and other visitors explore the basin. The Norris Geyser Basin is viewed at an elevated angle with the flat basin stretching into the distance. Mertie West and a few others gather around a low geyser cone that sits in the near distance at left. It barely emits steam. Mertie stands far to the right of it, facing left. A man appears to approach it from right-center. A woman, facing the camera, stands behind it, left-of-center. Another woman stands further back and to the right and looks on from the distance. A larger geyser emits steam in the distance. It sits at center. Steam wafts to the right, low off the geyser. A group of about 5 people walk towards it at center; all have their backs to the camera. Silhouetted hills and mountains rise in the far distance.
Date:
June 23, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West and other visitors explore the Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

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. There is a sign next to the road at the right of the photograph.
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 drinking from a fountain while Josie Shaw stands nearby, Independence, 1941

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West (center) taking a drink of water from a drinking fountain and Josie Shaw (right) standing nearby in Independence, en route to Rock Creek. Mertie West hunches over a drinking fountain and takes a drink of water. Her head is down and she faces towards the left. A large rock sitting atop a concrete base serves as the fountain. It stands at center and Mertie stands behind and to the right of it. Rectangles of white have been painted on the sides of the rock. Josie Shaw stands to the right with her hands to her hips as she looks off towards the right. Behind her and Mertie, a house stands at right. Further back at left, a rundown, warehouse-like structure stands. A tree stands in the foreground at left. The trunk is painted white and plumbing fixtures hang down the side of it.
Date:
1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West drinking from a fountain while Josie Shaw stands nearby, Independence, 1941

Josie Shaw and Mertie West lounging in their campsite, Mono County, 1941

Description:
Photograph, from front to back, of Josie Shaw and Mertie West sitting and reading at their campsite near Rock Creek. Mertie West sits in the near distance inside one of the group's tents. The tent stands left-of-center with the front flap open. Mertie sits inside the tent at right. She sits facing left and looks down to the newspaper on her lap. In the foreground, Josie Shaw sits outside and in front of the tent, right-of-center. She sits atop a large rock, facing left. She too looks down to read a magazine. Josie sits among rocks that surround the tent in the foreground and along its side on the right. A folding chair sits outside the tent to the left and behind Josie Shaw. A pine stands along the left edge of the frame in the foreground. Trees line the background.
Date:
1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Josie Shaw and Mertie West lounging in their campsite, Mono County, 1941

Mertie West and H. H. West pose for a photograph while standing next to an inscribed tablet, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Description:
An askew photograph of Mertie West and H. H. West standing next to the tablet at the base of a flagpole on the Nevada side of the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam. The tablet stands slightly off-center towards the right. Mertie West stands to the left of the inscription with one hand behind her back. H. H. West stands to the right of the inscription with one hand in his pocket and the other holding a coat. The inscription reads, "It is fitting that the flag of our country should fly here in honor of those men who, inspired by a vision of lonely lands made fruitful, conceived this great work and of those others whose genius and labor made that vision a reality."
Date:
March, 1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West and H. H. West pose for a photograph while standing next to an inscribed tablet, Boulder City vicinity, 1939

Mertie West and Rex V. Wilson stand on the side of the road alongside the Snake River, Hagerman vicinity, 1942

Description:
Distant photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West and Rex V. Wilson standing on the side of the road near the Snake River in Thousand Springs, Idaho. They are stopped along the side of U.S. Route 30. The road stretches from the lower left corner and back into the image, before curving out-of-frame at left. In the distance, Mertie West and Rex V. Wilson stand on the shoulder to the right of the road and face towards camera. H. H. West's Buick is parked off the road to the left of Mertie; it is viewed from the back. In front and to the right of them, a road sign is posted. It reads, "IDAHO U.S. 30." Grasses and brush occupy the right side of the foreground. It follows the same arc of the road to the left as it stretches towards the horizon. Beyond the grasses, the Snake River flows in the distance. It enters frame at right and follows the arc of the road as it exits frame at left. Canyon walls line the opposite bank and water flows down the side of a wall in the far distance, right-of-center.
Date:
June 26, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West and Rex V. Wilson stand on the side of the road alongside the Snake River, Hagerman vicinity, 1942

Mertie West walks from the Shawcreek Lodge, [Delta Junction vicinity?], 1946

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West walking away from the Shawcreek Lodge. Mertie West stands in the foreground, left-of-center. She faces towards the camera and looks to the left as she walks away from the lodge behind her. A person's arm enters the foreground along the left frame. Behind Mertie, a dirt pathway stretches through the middle of the image. It leads towards the front entrance of the lodge. Wood plank walkways lie on the ground in front of the entrance. Three men and a dog stand out front. The front entrance of the lodge stands at center. The enclosed entrance juts forward from the front of the building. Over the door, a sign reads, "SHAWCREEK BUS STOP." The building extends behind Mertie and across the image. It extends out-of-frame at left and right.
Date:
August 22, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West walks from the Shawcreek Lodge, [Delta Junction vicinity?], 1946

H. H. West Jr. poses with his step-mother, Mertie West, while wearing his Boy Scouts uniform, Los Angeles, about 1934

Description:
H. H. West Jr. poses with his step-mother, Mertie West, while wearing his Boy Scouts uniform. West has an arm over Mrs. West's shoulders. He wears tall socks, a sash, and kerchief. Mrs. West wears a hat and a skirt. There are houses and trees behind them.
Date:
[about 1934]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
H. H. West Jr. poses with his step-mother, Mertie West, while wearing his Boy Scouts uniform, Los Angeles, about 1934

Mertie West helps H. H. West, Jr. balance a block of ice on his head, Redlands vicinity, about 1930

Description:
Photograph, from front to back, of H. H. West, Jr. and Mertie West as she places a block of snow atop H. H. West, Jr.'s head. He sits/leans on a built up mound of snow and sticks his tongue out to camera. Mertie stands behind him and tries to balance a block of snow on his head. The front porch of rustic-style dwelling stands at right.
Date:
[about 1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West helps H. H. West, Jr. balance a block of ice on his head, Redlands vicinity, about 1930