Photograph of Mertie West posing by a produce stands while visiting a public market in Boston. Piles of fruit in crates line the bottom edge. Pears sit in the crates at right. Behind the pears, Mertie West stands, just right-of-center, and smiles to the camera. Behind and to the right of her, other shoppers mill about the market. Horses hitched to carts stand in an angled row behind the shoppers. The carts they haul are laden with crates. Behind the horse-drawn wagons, a long, covered market stand stretches across the image. Tall buildings rise in the background at right.
An out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing outside the First Church of Christ, Scientist's southern facade in Boston. A brick-paved walkway extends along the bottom edge. Mertie West stands in the near distance at left, along the back edge of the walkway. She stands in profile facing right, but turns her head to the camera. Immediately behind her, a wide, short set of steps, flanked by lampposts on pedestals, descends behind her. From the steps, the walkway stretches back on an angle towards the left side of the church. To the right of the walkway, a small, landscaped lawn sits in front of the church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist stands in the background, off-center to the left. It is viewed at a slight angle from its southern facade. A half-dome, lined with arched windows, extends towards camera. A white haze washes over the majority of the image. Two streaks of bright, white light crisscross at center.
According to the negative sleeve, this photograph was taken in New Orleans. The church standing in the distance is Old North Church in Boston. The Wests visited both Boston and New Orleans during their "Eastern trip" in October, 1947.
A slightly out-of-focus photograph of Mertie West posing while visiting the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Mertie West stands in the near distance at center. She faces left but turns her head towards camera. The narrow, stone-paved walkway she stands upon enters frame from the lower left corner and extends on an upward angle to the right. On the near side of the walkway, grave markers stand in a row, parallel to the walkway. Behind Mertie, the cemetery grounds sprawl into the distance. Grave stones stand in rows that run perpendicular to the walkway. A tomb rises from the ground, behind and to the right of Mertie. Several trees dot the grounds. In the background, a street and buildings are visible lining the cemetery's back edge. Hazy patches of white obscure the image along its right edge.
![Mertie West poses on a sidewalk in the North End with Old North Church in the background, [Boston], 1947](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002j3t0n/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)
