View of several tourists near a bus tour services office with a sign reading "The Gray Line" and a Gettysburg "Sight Seeing" bus in Washington, D.C.. The photo was taken during a visit by H. H. and Mertie West.
Photograph of an intersection passed en route to Mount Vernon by H. H. West; it is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. The town may be Alexandria, Virginia. At left, a long two-story building stands on the corner of 2 streets. A street runs horizontally in front of it from left to where it dead-ends on the right. It intersects a lamp-lined street at right. A parkway runs along side the street on the right. A utility pole stands in the foreground at center. A smokestack billowing dark smoke is visible in the distance.
Photograph of a town that H. H. West passed through on his way to visit Mount Vernon. The town might be Alexandria, Virginia. It is viewed from above. At left, a bungalow-style house and a garage(?) stand in the foreground. Behind them, a large building with a bell tower stands. A utility pole is in the foreground at center. At right, there is a small hill with barren trees. Behind the trees, additional houses can be seen. The ground is covered in patches of snow.
Text from negative sleeve: 2367. Eastern trip October 1947. Washington D C. 1 Mertie West looking across at Supreme Court bldg. 2 Looking down street toward entrance to White House, when entrance closed and no visitors. 3 Mertie West entering White House grounds. 4 The City Post office. 5 Our first view of Washington taken at depot as we stepped out. Dome in rear. 6 Mertie West crossing street to White House fence. 7 Front view of White House thru fence. 8 Southern entrance White House taken thru fence.
Photograph of a man strolling along a sidewalk in the vicinity of the White House visitors' entrance in Washington, D.C. A street corner sits in the foreground at left. Its sidewalks stretch horizontally across the foreground to the right and straight back through center. Further back at the corner, a tall, stone post stands, right-of-center. Wrought-iron fencing extends from it to the right and out-of-frame. The same fencing stretches back behind the post, lining the sidewalk. Enclosed behind the fence are shrubbery and trees. In the mid-ground, a man walks towards camera down the sidewalk. He looks towards the fence at right. Equally-spaced trees line the sidewalk's curb at left. To the left of the trees, a street stretches into the distance. A building lines the far side of the street at left and the Washington Monument is barely visible rising in the far distance at center.