Distant view of the the Schmitz, Scullin and West party campsite. 4 tents stand in the distance. The tent on the left is obscured by a parked automobile. A large tree extends out of frame behind the large, white tent pitched on the right. A hillside occupies the background.
Photograph of Edward Steinberg cooking up a piece of fish at the group's campsite. He stands center, in profile and facing left. To his left, a small portable stove with a stove pipe sits balanced atop rocks. His upper body is bent over the stove. His left arm is bent with the back of his hand resting on his hip. With this right hand, he holds a (fork?) to lift a fish from the pan sitting atop the stove. To the left of him, pans and buckets sit on rocks and shelves. In the background at right, a tented dining area is set up. A car is parked on the far right and a large piece of canvas stretches over the car towards Edward. The tent is additionally supported by ropes and long sticks functioning as posts. Beneath the tent and in front of the car, a man sips from a cup while sitting at a table. Plates and cups sit on the table. A small shelf stands at the end of the table and holds boxes and cans. A bench is visible in front of the table.
Photograph, from left to right, of Frances West, Ted McClellan and Elizabeth West hanging around the campsite near the base of a mountainside. Frances and Elizabeth stand at center and to the right of the back end of a vehicle. Frances stands closest to the car and looks down at something in her hands. Elizabeth stands to the right of Frances. She wears a bonnet and holds a fishing rod. Her other hand rests on her hip. A pot sits on the ground in front of her. The girls stand behind about 15 fish hanging from string. The string is attached to the car at left, is supported by a stick at center and continues out of the photograph at right. Ted McClellan stands behind and between the girls in the near distance. He leans against the driver's side of another car and looks downward. He wears a hat and holds a strap in his hands. A child (maybe Ted McClellan's son) stands to the left and behind Frances with his back to camera. Mountains rise in the background. A person's shadow enters the image at the bottom of the photograph on the left. A white blur cuts through the shadow.
At right, H. H. West holds the end of a string of trout and cigar while he looks to the camera. He stands in front of a boulder. The string extends to the left side of the image. In the center, about fifteen total trout hang from the string. A stick standing left-of-center supports the string of trout. The string is attached to a parked car near the rear tire. Frances West, Elizabeth West and Ted McClellan stand in line extending back from behind the stick. The girls wear similar printed dresses with bonnets and all three face the general direction of H. H. A car that faces left is parked behind and to the left of them. A mountain rises in the background at left.
Mertie West and Forrest and Agnes Whitaker stand in their campsite at Rock Creek. Mrs. West wears a floral dress. Mrs. Whitaker leans on a tree, and Mr. Whitaker sits on a bed. There is a tent at the left. There are pots and pans in the foreground and trees in the background.
Edward Steinberg poses for a photograph while he bends over the camp stove holding a pan. The stove sits on the ground in front of him and the stove pipe rises to the left of him. He holds a pan just over the stove. A kettle sits on the ground to the left of the stove. At right, a cart or wagon (partial view) is parked. A sheet covers the tire and a lantern hangs in the corner of the wagon. A low table extends from behind Edward towards the wagon. Someone stands at the end of the wagon and bends over the table. A box on the ground behind Edward and in front of the wagon reads, "SNOWFLAKE SODAS [...?]." Additional camp gear sits on the ground at right.
Photograph, from left to right, of Conrad Scullin and Edward Steinberg cooking over the stove at the West, Schmitz and Scullin party's camp near Convict Lake. The stove sits at far left with the stovepipe extending upwards along the left edge of the photograph. Conrad Scullin stands to the right of the stove and is bent over a pan that sits on the stove top. He holds a cooking utensil over the pan and looks to the camera. Edward Steinberg faces left as he bends over to place a pine cone underneath the stove. In the background at left, a tent is pitched like a tipi. At right, a small table with cups and plates on it stands in front of a parked car (partial view). The driver's side of the car faces the camera.
Photograph of Edward Steinberg crouching on the ground and keeping an eye on the camp stove. He is crouched down on the right, in profile and facing left. To his left, a small portable stove with a stove pipe sits balanced atop rocks. A pan sits on the stove. A table extends horizontally behind the stove and Edward. Pots, pans and a tablecloth sit atop the table. At right, the corner of a tent extends into the frame above Edward. It is supported by ropes and a stick functioning as a post. A canteen hangs from the post.
Photograph, from left to right, of: Mary West, Minnie West, Bessie Velzy, Frances West and Elizabeth West standing and sitting around their campsite near Convict Lake. Mary sits on a small camp chair, back towards the camera, and turns her head to look towards the camera. Minnie stands to the right and slightly in front of Mary. She stands in profile with her arms crossed and her head turned to look to camera. Bessie Velzy sits in the distance and to the right of Minnie. An arm rests on her leg and the other arm is around Frances West who stands at her right side. At far right, Elizabeth stands square to camera with her hands in her coat pockets. A young boy stands obscured behind her elbow on the left. The space between everyone is cluttered with camping supplies. A table covered in cloth, plates and cups stands behind and to the left of Elizabeth. Pots rest on rocks between Minnie and Bessie. A pot sits at the bottom of the photograph at center. A few coniferous-looking trees stand behind the group on the left. In the distance at center, Mount Morrison stands.
Photograph, from left to right, of Elizabeth West and Minnie West sitting at a table in camp near Convict Lake. They sit at center with the table to the right. Elizabeth sits slightly away from the table with her back to camera; she holds something to her mouth and turns her head to look towards the camera. Minnie West sits a little behind her at the table. She faces right and scratches her head. To the right of them stands the table; it is covered in a table cloth and cups and plates rest upon it. A couple of vacant camp chairs are around the table. A boulder sits in front of the foot of a large tree to the left of Elizabeth and Minnie. Additional camp supplies are strewn around the boulder. At lower left, the shadow of someone out-of-frame enters the frame and extends at an angle towards the right. A large stick lies on the ground in front of Elizabeth. Behind the camp is a line of trees. Beyond the trees, a couple of mountains stand in the background in the right and left corners.
A couple members of the West, Schmitz and Scullin camping party stand over a folding table as they wash dishes. The man on the left holds a wash rag in his hands to clean an object; he faces right. The man standing on the right side of the table is in profile and faces left. A pipe hangs from his mouth and he holds a plate over a bucket that sits on the table. Behind the table, a man leans against the rear fender of a car parked in the background. In the lower right corner, Conrad Scullin sits on the ground with another man sitting to his right. A stovepipe stands in the foreground at left. A car (partial view) is parked in the background with the driver's side facing the camera.
Five members of the West, Schmitz and Scullin camping party are gathered around their campsite near Convict Lake and cook up food. At left, a man stands and looks to camera with a towel or rag slung over his shoulder. To his right, a man smokes a cigar as he is crouched down near the stove that sits on the ground to his right. He tends to a pan on the stove top. Another man (maybe Jim Scullin) sits to the right of the stove. He looks to camera as he crouches down and holds a pan to the stove. The stove's stovepipe rises between them. Conrad Scullin stands behind the stove and to the right of the stovepipe. Standing on the far right, another man poses while holding a pan in one hand and a cigar in the other. Behind him, a tent stands. Mountains rise in the background.
Photograph, from left to right, of Elizabeth West and Bessie Velzy standing beneath a corner the canopy that covers the Velzy's sleeping quarters. They stand on the left side of the image between two trees and face to the left. The canopy stretched above them is anchored to the ground to the left of Elizabeth, a tree at center and to rocks to the right. Under the canopy, a bed sits low to the ground to the right of Bessie and extends behind her to the right. On the right, boulders are in a pile. Clothes lie and hang around the campsite. Jackets hang from the tree at center, a shirt hangs off the right side of the canopy, clothes lie on the rocks and a shirt hangs from tree branches in the upper right corner. A person's shadow is in the lower left corner.
Photograph of 7 people in the H. H. West and Glen Velzy families at a camp at Convict lake with 3 automobiles and 2 tents in view in a rocky landscape with low-growing plants and mountains in the distance. A boy stands in front of the central tend and 4 of the women wear white bonnets.
Mertie West was H. H. West's wife. Forrest Whitaker was Mertie's brother, and Agnes Whitaker was his wife. The kitchen is covered with an awning. There is a table surrounded by chairs, along with a counter that is lined with canned foods and topped with various kitchen supplies. There is a large log in the foreground.