A distant photograph of Nella West sitting among an outcrop of boulders at the summit of Mount Tamalpais. Nella West sits at center and looks off towards the right. She sits at the top of a mountain on a boulder. Boulders on the mountainside stand behind her and below her. Shrubbery covers some of the rocks at right. In the far distance at left, land at a significantly lower elevation stretches towards the water.
Photograph, from left to right, of Nella West and Mertie Whitaker sitting and posing at the base of a signal tower on the summit of Mount Tamalpais. Nella and Mertie sit center and smile to the camera. Mertie sits front and center in front of the base of the signal tower while Nella sits slightly behind her and to the left of the signal tower. Other visitors to the summit of Mount Tamalpais stand and sit to the left of them. The tower stands atop a small rocky peak and extends out-of-frame, right-of-center. Three cables extend down from it; one each to the right and left and another at center, towards the camera and to the right of Mertie. A slotted platform on the tower hangs over Mertie and Nella. The tower stretches upward with a few climbing rungs visible. At right, a wood-enclosed sluice extends from the tower down the side of the mountain.
Photograph of a section of railroad tracks of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad curving along a mountainside near Mount Tamalpais. The tracks enter the image from bottom edge of the frame, left-of-center. They curve upwards towards the right where they disappear behind a rocky mountainside that stands in the foreground along the right edge. On the left side of the tracks, the mountainside slopes downward. Trees stands in the near distance on the left side of the tracks and a mountain rises in the distance.
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie Whitaker standing and posing while standing in front of a small boulder at Mount Tamalpais. Mertie stands at center and smiles to the camera. She leans back against the rock, slightly. A larger boulder stands in shadow at left. Low brush covers the mountainside behind Mertie at right.
A hazy photograph taken from Mount Tamalpais and looking west. In the foreground, hillsides descend down towards San Francisco Bay. At left, Conte Madera Creek flows into San Francisco Bay. Point San Quentin juts into the bay just past the creek. The shoreline continues to the right and San Francisco Bay stretches towards the horizon.
Photograph of a few people standing along a trail and peering over the side of a mountain near the summit of Mt. Tamalpais. The visitors to Mt. Tamalpais stand in the near distance at center and face towards the left as they gaze over the side of the mountain. At their backs and to the right, a large boulder stands and hovers over them. The trail they stand on curves from the lower right corner, around the rock and then back to the right where it disappears behind the boulder. In the far distance, a peninsula extends out towards the water. A wide, white band stretches vertically along the left edge of the image.
Photograph of a train from the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad appearing to climb up to Mt. Tamalpais. Three cars of the train are visible as they appear to climb the mountain on an incline from left to right. It is viewed at an angle from the side. What looks to be the caboose sits leftmost. A smokestack billows smoke from the right side of the car. An engine appears to be enclosed inside the car and an operator sits at the back of the car, facing right. Two additional cars travel the tracks ahead (to the right) of the caboose. Both appear to be passenger cars and recede into the distance. A man walks with his back to the camera alongside the right side of the middle car. A couple of mountainsides rise in the background.
Photograph looking southeast down the mountainside of Mount Tamalpais towards the double bow knot of the Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad and surrounding area. Shrubbery stands in the immediate foreground. Looking beyond that, a bird's-eye view looking southeast from Mt. Tamalpais looks across the Marin County peninsula. At center, the double bow knot section of railroad tracks climbs up the mountainside. In the distance and to the left of the tracks, Mill Valley is visible. The Marin County peninsula stretches into the background towards San Francisco Bay.
Photograph of the Tavern of Tamalpais resort hotel, viewed at a distance, standing on a mountainside of Mount Tamalpais. The Tavern of Tamalpais stands in the near distance, right-of-center. It is viewed at an angle from the front. The three-story building contains an arcade that stretches across the second story towards an archway that extends off the left side of the building. Through the archway that stands left-of-center, the front of a train is visible as it sits tucked between two buildings. A portion of an adjacent building stands at left. Train tracks stretch upward at left towards the train sitting under the archway. A few people walk along a path in front of the Tavern of Tamalpais towards the left. A mountain rises behind the Tavern.
