Names: Burgess, Dorothea Mae Siemsen, 1926-2003 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of: Richard Siemsen, Walter Burgess, Dorothea Siemsen, Elizabeth Siemsen and H. H. West posing in front of the Siemsen's home on Los Encinos Avenue in Glendale. The group is viewed close-up and stand in a row in front of the Siemsen's house. They all wrap their arms behind one another and look to the camera. Walter Burgess is dressed in a military uniform. Behind them, shrubbery obscures the house and a window sits behind Elizabeth.
Date:: May, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Dorothea Siemsen stands in front of a wisteria plant in her grandfather, H. H. West's backyard. She wears a coat, a dress, a necklace, and a hairpiece that may be flowers or ribbons. There is a table in the background and a chair at the right.
Date:: March 29, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: William Shaw, Josie Shaw, Mertie West, and Dorothea Siemsen in front of a roadside restaurant in Claremont. A sign in the background reads, "Dinners Sandwiches." There are also cars parked in the background.
Date:: March 29, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mertie West poses with the Siemsen family. The three women wear floral dresses, and Richard Siemsen wears a patterned shirt. There are trees, houses, and a car in the background.
Date:: May 6, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West's grandchildren, Richard and Dorothea Siemsen, stand on the front lawn of the West's house. Richard crosses his arms over his chest while his sister looks at him. She wears a floral-print dress and a bow in her hair. A car is parked on the street behind them. There are houses and trees in the background.
Date:: May 6, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Frances West and Elizabeth West each standing on either side of a donkey that poses with them near Pacoima Canyon. The girls are dressed identically and both smile to camera. Frances holds a glass jar in one hand. A small donkey stands between them and faces the camera. Behind Elizabeth and to the right, another donkey is tethered to a tree. Behind Frances and to the left, a car is parked facing camera. Its plate reads, "33252." To the left of the car, a man and woman walk past the car and away from camera. Trees stand in the background.
Date:: [circa 1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Dorothea Siemsen stands in front a wisteria plant in her grandfather, H. H. West's backyard. She wears a dress, a necklace, and a hairpiece that may be flowers or ribbons.
Date:: March 29, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: An informal group photograph, from left to right, of Richard Siemsen, H. H. West, Jr., Dottie (Dorothea) Siemsen and Mertie Whitaker West posing while they wait for a train at the S. P. R. R. train station in Glendale. They wait for train to Santa Barbara where H. H. West, Jr.'s high school band was to perform. The Siemsen children and Mertie all pose and look to the camera. H. H. West, Jr. wears his band uniform and gazes off towards the left. People mill about the platform in the background. Some at right also wear their band uniforms. Train tracks are at left as well as the exhaust from a train.
Date:: December 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: A distant and angled view of the Siemsen residence in Glendale. It is viewed from the southwest and looking towards the hills in the northeast. The house sits on the opposite side of the street at left and is obscured by trees in both the front yard and a neighboring yard. H. H. West's Buick is parked in the street in front of the house and faces towards the camera. From left to right, Elizabeth Siemsen, Mertie West and Dottie Siemsen stand around some hedges in front of the house (distant view). The street stretches to the right towards the distant hills.
Date:: May, 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: H. H. West Jr. and other R. O. T. C. cadets gather for the Decoration Day Parade as other members of the West family look on. West is visible, third from the left, standing in profile. Two other cadets are at the center of the image holding a flag. A car is at the right. The west family stands on the sidewalk in the background. There is a building at the right.
Date:: May 30, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Browse items