Color photograph of American wind multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and composer Vinny Golia playing a bass clarinet. Double bass player Michael Elizondo is in the background. A baritone saxophone is also partially visible.
Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
Photograph of the Albert Schmitz family cabin at Lake Arrowhead, with a stone wall in front, where the H. H. West family also stayed during a summer vacation.
Photograph of tablets inset into the garden wall of the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston. The brick, garden wall stretches across the image. At center, one tablet is set into the wall. Tablets to the left and right of it are obscured by shadows cast by surrounding trees. The shadows naturally frame the tablet at center.
Photograph, from left to right, of Harry Schmitz and Wilfrid Cline, Jr. standing in the distance at their campsite along a bank of Cow Creek, east of Redding. They stand in the distance at center near the creek's bank and face towards one another. Their gear sits on the ground to the right Wilfrid. A car is parked nearer to camera to the left of them. The car is viewed an an angle from the front and the side; it faces towards the right. The car sits parked in the middle of a dirt road. The road enters from the left, curving towards the right as it approaches the camera. A bridge stands in the background at left. Cow Creek flows behind and to the right of Harry and Wilfrid. Trees stand in the background.
H. H. West's wife, Mary, poses on a front lawn with her daughters, Elizabeth and Frances. Mrs. West crouches down and holds Frances's hand. Frances sits in the stroller and has a cloth tied around her waist. Elizabeth stands behind Frances with her hands on the back of the stroller. There are houses, trees, and utility poles in the background.
Photograph of about 5-6 men working on top of a frozen Jackson Lake to remove snow. The man on the left stands on the lake holding a broom. To his right, a man wearing ice skates pushes a plow-like apparatus. To his right, two men use brooms to remove the snow. To the right of them, a man drives a tractor across the lake. In the distance, another person stands on the ice. On the opposite side of the lake, a small structure with large chimney sits along the shore left-of-center of the photograph. A hillside covered in trees and snow slopes down towards the lake on the left and another hillside covered in trees and snow rises up in the background on the right. A white dwelling sits in the gap between these two hillsides in the background. In the foreground at right, a piping fixture rises out of the snow-covered ground.
People wait for the ferry to Oakland. The crowd is almost exclusively made up of men. There are people on the wharf, as well as on the ferry. Two American flags fly on the ferry. A sign on the front reads, "walk your horses" and a beam in the background has the word "Wellington" printed on it. There are wires overhead and tracks in the foreground.
An out-of-focus and slightly lopsided photograph of three unknown persons sitting on a long bench in a park. The trio sits in a row left-of-center and appear to be sloping downward to the left. Starting at left, a woman dressed in white sits and looks to camera; she holds a jacket in her lap. A man sits at center. He looks to the camera while holding a box in his lap. A woman sits to his right. She folds her hands in her lap as she turns her head to look at the man. A dirt pathway crosses in front of them. A brush covered hillside rises directly behind them.
Everett Shaw holds a baseball bat in Victory Park, in the Arroyo Seco area. A boy stands behind him holding a ball and there are other people at the right of the photograph. There are trees and picnic tables in the background.
From the web sit of the American Air Museum in Britain: William D. Hearn served with the 381st Bomb Group. He was shot down in Germany on March 2, 1944 and was a prisoner of war.
Photograph of an old building in Jacksonville, Oregon. A dirt road passes across the image in the foreground. The building stands in the near distance at center and is viewed at a slight angle from the front. The building is of brick construction with 2 doors at center. A window sits on the other side of each door. Above the shared lintel, an engraving reads, "J. A. BRUNNER & BRO. 1855." The roof is of wood construction and slants upward to the right where it meets another building (partial view). The building at right stands 2-stories tall and extends out of frame. A window pane appears to be missing from the leftmost window on the second floor and an arcade stretches across the ground floor.
Photograph of Horseshoe (or Canadian) Falls, as viewed from the west side of the falls. Vegetation grows in the foreground along the bottom edge at left. Just beyond it, water at the top of the near side of the falls flows. In the distance, the Niagara River flows over the east side of Horseshoe Falls. The falls span the width of the image, extending beyond the right frame. Mist rises up from the waterfall's basin in the near distance at center. The Niagara River extends back from the top of the falls and into the distance. Alongside it, land forms stand silhouetted at left.
Glen Velzy stands in profile on the far right and faces left. He grasps an unknown object in his left hand. With his right hand, he holds a string or line that extends in front of him towards the left. At center, trout dangle from the line held by Glen Velzy. The line is propped up with a stick that has been split. Several fish hang from a string on the right side of the stick and five hang on the left side of the stick. Behind the fish and to the left, Velzy's Buick is parked and the rear end is visible. A trunk sits up on the back of the car and a few spare tires sit on the ground leaning against the back end of the car. Behind Glen on the right, Elizabeth West, Frances West and Ted McClellan's son stand with their backs to the camera. They stand to the side of and face another parked car. A large tree stands on the left behind the Buick. In the near distance, trees stand in the background at right, and in the far distance mountains rise in the background.
Three men, dressed in suits, stand at the top of the steps and under the pergola of the Pebble Beach Lodge. The lodge and the pergola are constructed out of logs. A car (partial view) is parked on the right in front of the steps. The men are automotive parts jobbers in Pebble Beach for a meeting of the Automotive Parts Jobbers of the Pacific Coast.
Charlie Stavnow (left) and Glen Velzy breaking up camp at the end of a fishing trip in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, with bags for the pack animals on the ground and another camper behind a tree.
Mertie West, William Shaw, Agnes Whitaker, H. H. West Jr., and Forrest Whitaker at Pine Creek. Agnes stands on a rock behind H. H. West Jr. Forrest sits on a rock.
Photograph taken from Frances Wells' apartment that looks across Anchorage towards Cook Inlet. The scene is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. Trees stand along the right edge and branches jut into the foreground from the lower left corner. Houses and streets stand in the near distance below at center. Farther out, Cook Inlet spans the image and disappears behind the trees that stand in the foreground at right. The opposite shore is visible in the far distance.
Photograph of Mary A. West (center) and Sena Mead (right) posing next to a yucca while Paul Mead (left) walks in the grass nearby during a trip to San Gabriel Canyon. The yucca stands in the near distance at center. Mary A. West stands to the left of the plant and looks to the camera. Sena Mead stands to the right of the yucca and is turned slightly to the left. Paul Mead stands just to the left of Mary. A grove of trees stands behind them in the background. Among the trees, a silhouetted horse and wagon stand behind Paul.
Fifty trout lie on a slab of rock. They are lined up in three rows oriented vertically (head to tail). Between the primary rows, some fish are placed horizontally, head to tail, between these rows. Further back on the rock, a basket sits with a fishing rod balanced atop it. A couple more boulders are in the background among the surrounding brush.
An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West and Dr. Bim Smith sitting at the West's dining table during a birthday dinner for Bim Smith and H. H. West. H. H. West and Dr. Bim Smith sit on the far side of the table in the near distance at center. They are viewed level with the top of the table. H. H. West sits at left and looks to the camera while resting an arm over the back of his chair. He wears a top hat. Bim sits to the right of him and looks towards the camera. A birthday cake sits in front of him on the table. At far the right, someone (looks to be Agnes Whitaker) dons a top hat and is captured in motion. Glasses and flatware sit atop the table. A tablecloth drapes over the front edge of the table in the foreground. One person sits on the near side of the table at right. They are in partial view with only their knees jutting into the image from the lower right corner. The seat of an empty chair juts into frame from the lower left corner. In the background, a large fireplace sits to the left of H. H. West, a bookshelf stands behind and to the left of Bim Smith and a wide doorway leads into another room at right.
Photograph, from left to right, of Harry Schmitz and Wilfrid Cline, Jr. eating casaba for breakfast near a car. Harry Schmitz stands in front of the back end of a car. He faces towards the camera as he eats a slice of casaba. Wilfrid Cline, Jr. sits at center, to the right of Harry, and looks to the camera while eating a large slice of casaba. He sits in the backseat of a car. The car is in partial view and is viewed at an angle from the side. The front of the car extends out-of-frame at right. A dirt road stretches behind the car at left. Trees and fencing stand in the background at left.
Glen Velzy kneels on the ground and fixes the front left tire on H. H. West's Buick. He faces right as both hands work on the tire. The car (partial view) sits to the right with the front of the car facing slightly towards the left. A tent stands behind and to the left of Glen. It is made out of green balloon silk. A thin rope extends between the top of the tent down to the car. The trunk of a large tree stands in the background right-of-center. An obscured mountain rises in the distance at left.
H. H. West's family poses in front of an orange tree by Wayne West's home. Myrtle West holds an orange and a bouquet of flowers. Evert West holds oranges. A house is visible at the right of the photograph.
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.
Man feeding a goat. The man wears a hat and bowtie and has a mustache. He wears a ring on his pinkie finger. There is a rocky hill in the background. H. H. West's sister, Nella, took this photograph.
Mertie West was H. H. West's second wife. Forrest Whitaker was her brother and Agnes was Forrest's wife. William Shaw was Mertie and Forrest's brother-in-law.
Photograph of 2 butane tanks sitting atop a flatbed dolly on the sidewalk outside the H. H. West Company's offices on Omar Avenue. The tanks sit on a dolly, right-of-center, and are viewed at an angle. The dolly and tanks are on a sidewalk that stretches through the image on a vertical angle to the left. Behind the tanks, the office building for the H. H. West Company stretches along the right side of the sidewalk. A set of doors stands wide open, at right. A chain hanging from the dolly lies on the sidewalk and extends towards the doorway. Behind the tanks, a sign in a window reads, "AMERICAN WHOLESALE HARDWARE CO. LONG BEACH."
House belonging to the Brown family.The house has a front porch and features large front windows as well as a dormer window at the top. The address appears to be 1255 Magnolia Avenue. The address has changed to 1502 Magnolia Avenue.