Photograph of Frances West Wells (left) and Mertie Whitaker West (right) standing and posing for a photograph in front of a woodpile outside of a cabin. A second woodpile is in the background at center and a cabin can be seen in the background on the right.
Photograph, from front to back, of Agnes Whitaker and Forrest Whitaker fishing from a boat on Big Bear Lake. The camera looks down on them slightly. Their boat sits left-of-center and extends straight back into the image. Agnes Whitaker sits in the foreground at left on a wood seat that spans the width of the boat. Her back is to the camera and she faces slightly right as she holds a fishing rod out over the right side of the boat. Forrest Whitaker sits behind and to the left of her. He is partially obscured by Agnes and faces right. Big Bear Lake extends beyond their boat and into the distance. A low mountain stands in the background at center.
Photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West and Agnes Whitaker stopping to pose on the dock before heading back to their cabin at Big Bear Lake. The dock enters frame from the bottom edge and stretches straight back through center, reaching land in the mid-ground. Boats are moored alongside the dock at left and right. In the near distance at center, Mertie West and Agnes Whitaker stand on the dock. Both are bundled up and carry seat cushions. Mertie faces camera while Agnes faces right, but turns her head towards camera. Directly behind them, metal barrels stand on the shore. A little further back at right, a few cars are parked in a lot. An open field sits in the distance at left. Pines line the background. Opaque, white patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners, dissipating as they extend upwards along their respective edges.
Photograph of Forrest Whitaker sitting at the stern of his boat on Big Bear Lake. The boat sits in the water at center and is viewed from the front. It stretches back into the water and is viewed from slightly above. Forrest Whitaker sits on the seat rung furthest from camera. He turns towards the motor behind and to the right of him. Beyond Forrest and his boat, Big Bear Lake expands into the distance. Low mountains rise from the opposite bank. The shoreline appears to tilt downward from left to right.
Photograph of Big Bear Lake as viewed from the front porch of H. H. West and company's cabin at Stillwell's Camp. Grasses cover the ground that stretches across the foreground and towards the lake in the near distance. In the mid-ground, Big Bear Lake stretches across the image. Two people stand by a rowboat, right-of-center, that is moored on the near shore. Several boats are visible on the lake. Silhouetted hills line the far shore in the distance.
An out-of-focus and tilted photograph of the Lighthouse Camp as viewed from a boat on Big Bear Lake. The lake spans the foreground and mid-ground, occupying the majority of the image. The shoreline extends across the image on an upward angle from left to right near the top frame. Two cabins stand on the shore, just right-of-center. Row boats are docked at left.
Photograph (from left to right) of H. H. West, Jr. and Neil Wells digging for worms along the lakeside of Big Bear Lake. H. H. West, Jr. is bent over and looks at the ground, while Neil Wells stands and looks off to the right while holding a large stick and smoking a pipe.
Photograph, taken from a distance, of the Wells cabin (center) as it undergoes construction in the Minnelusa Canyon area of Big Bear Lake. Lumber and other building materials are strewn across the ground in front of the cabin.
Photograph of the new post office and bank building standing alongside a street near the landing in Big Bear Lake. A street stretches across the foreground on an angled decline angle from left to right. At right, a traffic sign reads, "END 25 MILE ZONE." On the opposite side of the street, left-of-center, a new strip mall stands. It is viewed at an angle from the front and is obscured by trees that line the roadside at far left. The post office occupies the left unit of the new building. Etched into the windows surround the post office's doors, it reads, "POST OFFICE BIG BEAR LAKE [???]." Further along the far side of the road, an automobile dealership stands, right-of-center. Dozens of cars sit in an open lot and a garage stands behind them. A sign for the business reads, "BIG [picture of a bear] MOTORS." Big Bear Lake is visible in the distance at center and right. Mountains rise from the opposite shore in the far distance.