Photograph of a couple Native American children wearing life jackets while standing on the promenade deck of a ship during a safety drill. A boy (left) and young girl (right) stand, left-of-center, wearing life jackets. Both look to the camera as they stand on the promenade deck with other passengers. The ship's covered promenade extends behind them and to the left. A guardrail lines the right side of the promenade. Behind and to the right of the children, an older girl in a life jacket stands at the rail with her back towards the camera. The ship's wake is visible in the background over the right side of the ship.
Photograph of H. H. West wearing a life jacket while standing alongside a rail on the promenade deck of a ship. H. H. stands at center wearing a life jacket. He looks towards the camera and rests an arm on a guardrail at right. The ship's covered promenade extends behind him and into the distance. Windows line the cabin that stretches alongside it at left. The guardrail lines the right side of the promenade. Wake from the ship is visible in the background at right.
Photograph of Mertie West wearing a life preserver during a ship safety drill. Mertie West stands at center, wearing a life jacket, and faces left. The covered deck she stands upon stretches behind her on an upward angle from left to right. A guardrail lines the far side of the walkway. Two other passengers stand along the rail at far right, behind Mertie. Behind the 2 other passengers, a jet of water streams from the ship and arcs out to the ocean. The ocean stretches into distance.
Photograph of passengers donning life jackets while participating in a fire safety drill aboard their ship. The camera looks down an exterior corridor of the ship. The corridor's walkway stretches from the bottom edge and directly back at a slight angle to the left. A guardrail lines the left side of the walkway. On the right side, passengers wear life preservers and stand in a row that recedes back along the corridor. They lean against the exterior of a cabin that runs the length of the walkway. The nearest passenger stands along the right edge with his back to camera and faces left. He takes a photograph. On his life jacket, it reads, "59." The ocean is visible just beyond the guardrails at far left.
Photograph of crew members partaking in a fire drill on the promenade deck of the ship as passengers mill about in life jackets. The scene is viewed from an elevated angle. The deck's guard rail stretches vertically through the image at center on an angle from right to left. The promenade deck extends to the left of the rail. A few passengers wearing life jacks stand on the promenade at left. A hose winds down the deck towards crew members in life jackets. Crew members stand along the rail at center and hold the hose over the right side of the rail. It sprays water out into the ocean. The wake of the ship flows at right.
Photograph of Mertie West wearing a life jacket while standing alongside a rail on the promenade deck of a ship. Mertie stands at center wearing a life jacket. She faces towards the camera and rests an arm on a guardrail as she looks out at the ocean to the right. The ship's covered promenade extends behind her and into the distance. Windows line the cabin that stretches alongside it at left. The guardrail lines the right side of the promenade. Wake from the ship is visible in the background at right.
