An out-of-focus photograph of H. H. West posing beside a deteriorating beacon in Metlakatla, Alaska. H. H. West stands in the distance at center and looks to the camera. To the right of him, the beacon stands. A light sits atop the point of the steeple-like structure. Overgrown grasses and brush surround the beacon. A waterway stretches behind H. H. and the beacon. The distant shore is visible in the far distance beyond the cloud cover.
