Nella A. West was H. H. West's sister. Pinkie Lemberger (Ellen Lorene Lemberger Warder) was their first cousin. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Dr. Bim Smith pretends to vaccinate Nella West while Mrs. Smith watches. Dr. Smith leans over Nella, who has her arm up on the table. Mrs. Smith has her hand on Nella's back. A glass bottle, bowls, notebooks, and a lamp sit on the table. Pictures hang on the walls and there is a fireplace in the background. At the right, curtains cover a bookcase.
Group photograph, from left to right, of Nella West, Mary West, Frances West, Elizabeth West and Minnie West posing in the Duro Car while traveling through Newhall Pass near Santa Clarita. The Duro is parked off-center to the left on a dirt road. It is viewed from the side and faces left. Nella West sits in the driver's seat and looks down while facing left. Mary West stands behind and to the right of her; she looks to camera as she props up Frances West to the right. Frances looks off towards the right. Elizabeth West sits in the backseat. She is to the right of Frances and looks to the camera. Minnie West sits to the right and in front of Elizabeth and also looks to the camera. Small flowering tree branches are attached to the side of the car near Minnie. Tall grasses line the side of the road in foreground as well as behind the car. Trees stand behind the group near the roadside and mountains rise in the distance.
Photograph, from left to right, of Dave F. Smith, Isabelle Smith, Nella West and Mary A. West in their camp at Thompsons. Dave F. Smith sits to the left at a small table. He faces towards the camera as he dines and tilts his head downward. Isabelle Smith crouches down at center and to the left of the camp stove. She appears to be cooking and faces towards the right. Pots and pans sit atop the stove and on the ground near Isabelle. Nella West stands behind the stove and looks off towards the left. Mary A. West stands at right, in profile, and looks down to the left towards Isabelle and the stove. Trees stand along the back edge of the camp at right and a small hill rises behind the camp at left.
Nella A. West was H. H. West's sister. Pinkie Lemberger (Ellen Lorene Lemberger Warder) was their first cousin. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Photograph, from left to right, of Ellen Lorene "Pinkie" Lemberger, Mertie Whitaker and Nella West standing on a pier at Santa Monica's North Beach while holding onto their hats. The pier spans the foreground and stretches back on an upward angle from the lower right corner towards the left. The women stand in a semi-circle on the pier, left-of-center. Pinkie Lemberger stands at left and faces towards the right. She places a hand to her hat. Mertie Whitaker stands at center and further back from the camera. She smiles to the camera as she places both hands behind her head. At right, Nella West stands in profile, facing left. She too raises a hand to her hat. The beach on the south side of the pier sprawls behind them in the distance at right. Nearest to camera, ocean waves roll onto the shore. The beach stretches horizontally across the image at right. Sitting back from the water at right, the Arcadia Hotel stands.
Photograph of H. H. West's Buick and Dave F. Smith's EMF parked in tandem along the aqueduct road by Owens Lake. The dirt road passes through the image on a curve. It enters frame at left, juts out towards center before curving back to the left and disappearing behind the cars and a mound. H. H. West's Buick is parked nearest to the camera and Dave F. Smith's EMF is behind it. They are both viewed at an angle from the front and face left. Someone (Nella West?) sits in the back seat of the Buick and reads a newspaper. Dave and Isabelle Smith sit in the front seat of their EMF and look out towards the right. Someone (Mary A. West?) stands by the right side of the EMF with their back towards the camera. Large rocks lie in the dirt off to the side of the road in the foreground at right. A rocky, earthen mound stands on the left side of the road behind the cars. Silhouetted mountains rise in the distance at right.
Photograph, from left to right, of Mary A. West, Dave F. Smith and Nella A. West standing around their campsite nestled among aspen trees at Silver Lake. Mary A. West stands at left and closest to the camera. She faces right, but turns her head towards the camera. Dave F. Smith stands behind and to the right of her. He faces right and looks downward towards a fire pit on the ground. Nella West stands at center, behind and to the right of Dave F. Smith. She faces towards the camera. The smokestack from the camp stove rises directly in front of her. The group stands around a camp stove at center and a fire pit behind and to the left of the stove. Behind them, the camp stands. Four aspen trees stand behind Dave F. Smith and Nella A. West. Clothes hang from a line between the trees at left and a canopy stretches between the trees at right. A tent stands in the background at right. The camp clearing is surrounded by trees.
Photograph of Nella West standing in a park in San Jose. Nella stands at center on a walking path. She faces slightly to the left with her hands behind her back. The path she stands on extends across the image on a slightly upward angle from right to left. Flat, grassy ground surrounds the path at front and back. A little further in the distance, low trees stand and beyond the trees, a hillside rises.