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Karr's Log Cabin Court, Crescent City, 1942

Description:
Photograph of Karr's Log Cabin Court in Crescent City. A gravel drive extends across the foreground and back towards the cabins. Two signs for the auto court stand in the near distance at left. A round sign standing just above the ground reads, "KARR'S LOG CABIN COURT HEATED." A sign above it reads, "CABINS." Behind the signs, a few cabins stand. The leftmost cabin is obscured by the signs. Two cabins extend back and to the right of the signs; they face right. Two cabins at far right face slightly left. Between the second and third cabin from the right, H. H. West's Buick is parked. It is viewed from the side at a slight angle and faces right. Far in the distance, a smokestack and a couple water towers stand behind the cabins, right-of-center.
Date:
[July 3, 1942]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Karr's Log Cabin Court, Crescent City, 1942

Richard Siemsen poses with a cane in H. H. West's yard next to a furniture sale sign, Los Angeles, 1944

Description:
Photograph of Richard Siemsen posing with a cane while standing next to a furniture sale sign on the front lawn of H. H. West's residence on Griffin Avenue. Richard Siemsen stands in the near distance, left-of-center, on the front lawn. He looks to the camera and holds George M. West's cane out to the right. To the left of Richard, a sign posted in front of the house reads, "FURNITURE FOR SALE." Behind Richard, the front of the West's home on Griffin Avenue stretches across the background. It is viewed at an angle from the front and enters frame at left. Directly behind Richard, from left to right, Mertie West and Maud F. West stand beneath the arch of the front porch. From the front porch, a walkway extends on a downward angle towards the right. Wayne West stands on the far side of the walkway with his back turned to camera. Beyond him, a neighbor's house stands in the background at right.
Date:
May, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Richard Siemsen poses with a cane in H. H. West's yard next to a furniture sale sign, Los Angeles, 1944

Sign for Summit stands on a hillside, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Description:
Photograph of a sign for "SUMMIT" standing on a hillside in Denali National Park and Preserve. The sign is posted in the foreground at center. Behind it at right is a tripod constructed out of long sticks. Tall grasses cover the hillside as it rises towards the distance. Pines dot the hillside as well. Utility lines stretch across the image, above the hillside. At the top of the hill and in the distance, communication towers stand.
Date:
August 17, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Sign for Summit stands on a hillside, Denali National Park and Preserve, 1946

Mertie stands on a dock and fiddles with a camera, Valdez, 1946

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West standing on a dock in Valdez and toying with a camera she holds. Mertie West stands in the foreground, left-of-center. She faces towards the right and looks down towards a camera she holds in her hands. Behind her, the pier stretches across the image on an upward angle from right to left. A man walks along the pier, behind Mertie, at center. Adjoining, garage-like buildings line the right side of the pier. The building is viewed at an angle from the front, facing left. A sign spans the front of the 2 buildings. It reads, from left to right, "CENTER OF THE Prince William Sound Gold and Copper Belt," "VALDEZ TERMINUS OF A GREAT SCENIC ROAD THE RICHARDSON HIGHWAY," and "SHORT ROUTE TO Interior Alaska Chitina-Fairbanks-Circle." A garage door stands below the sign on the right side of the building. To the right of the door, a person sits on the ground. A dozen or more barrels are loosely lined up in front of the building, extending towards the left, behind Mertie and out-of-frame at left. Mountains are visible in the far distance. Some twisted streaks of white occupy the upper left corner and lens flare appears to radiate from it towards the center of the image.
Date:
August 9, 1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie stands on a dock and fiddles with a camera, Valdez, 1946

Signage for Knights Camp sitting along the roadside, Big Bear Lake, 1944

Description:
Photograph of a sign for Knights Camp at Big Bear Lake sitting along the roadside. A dirt road passes across the foreground. Tall grasses sit on the far side of the road in front of white picket fence that stretches from right to left. A sign on the fence reads, "STANDARD FLAMO GAS-EQUIPED COTTAGES." Immediately behind the fence, a billboard-sized sign stands at center. It reads, "KNIGHTS CAMP." Two lamps hang over it from the top edge. A right-pointing arrow sits atop the large sign. To the left, a road, stretches into the distance. A building stands down the road along the left edge. Pines stand in the far distance.
Date:
September, 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Signage for Knights Camp sitting along the roadside, Big Bear Lake, 1944

Mertie West stands at the edge of Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

Description:
Photograph of Mertie West standing alongside Morning Glory Pool in the Upper Geyser Basin. Morning Glory Pool sits in the near distance at center. In front of it stands a signpost, which reads, "MORNING GLORY POOL THIS FAR-FAMED POOL HAS EASILY WON ITS NAME FORM THE SYMMETRY AND DEPTH OF ITS CRATER AND THE BLUE COLOR OF THE WATER. THIS BLUE IS THE NORMAL COLOR OF LARGE BODIES OF WATER. THE MORE BRILLIANT HUES TO BE FOUND IN SMALLER QUANTITIES ARE DUE TO A LOW FORM OF PLANT LIFE. WHILE THE FAME OF THIS IS GREAT, IT NEVERTHELESS IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE SURPASSED BY A NUMBER OF OTHER POOLS IN THE PARK, SOME OF WHICH ARE IN THIS GENERAL REGION." About 5 long, carved logs encircle the pool, end-to-end, providing seating for visitors. Mertie West stands, left-of-center, in the near distance to the left of the sign post and at the pool's edge. She stands in profile, facing right, while holding a book in her hands. Pines stand across the background.
Date:
June 23, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Mertie West stands at the edge of Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone National Park, 1942

Signs posted along the roadside, Winnemucca vicinity, 1942

Description:
Photograph of 2 signs posted alongside the road and taken while H. H. West and company travel through Nevada en route to Yellowstone. A road passes through the image across the bottom frame on a downward angle from left to right. A sign displaying mileage to various cities stands adjacent to the road at left. It faces towards the right and reads, "LOVELOCK 71 FERNLEY 130 RENO 166 SAN FRANCISCO 410." The desert brush sprawls beyond it. Further off the road, a larger sign stands at center. It too faces right, it reads, "TWO STIFFS SELLING GAS LOVELOCK, NEV. 72 MILES STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS AUTO COURT." Ground brush stretches into the distance. Mountains are visible in the background.
Date:
June 20, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Signs posted along the roadside, Winnemucca vicinity, 1942

Close-up view of the side exterior wall of a general store, Oxnard vicinity, 1942

Description:
Close-up photograph of the side of the New Jerusalem (now El Rio) general store near Oxnard. The camera is cast upward at the signage painted on the side of the whitewashed brick building. The signs read, "NEW JERUSALEM SIMON COHN General Merchandise Here SINCe 1875," and "GROCERIES - VEGETA[BLES] HARDWARE - TOO[LS] NOTIONS - DRU[GS] POULTRY FOO[DS] DRINK Coca-Co[la]."
Date:
July 6, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Close-up view of the side exterior wall of a general store, Oxnard vicinity, 1942

Holmes advertisement posted along the roadside near Boulder Bay, Big Bear Lake, 1945

Description:
Photograph of a Holmes advertisement posted on the roadside in the Boulder Bay area of Big Bear Lake. The wood-constructed sign stands at center and is viewed close-up at a slight angle. It is posted in front of a tall tree; the tree's trunk rises behind it and beyond the top edge. A vertical portion of the sign also extends above the top edge, it reads, "[...]LD." The sign at center reads, "in the Village HUNTING & FISHING Information RESORT GUIDE SEE HOLMES for HOMES." Below it and tacked to the tree trunk, a smaller notice reads, "LOT 68 X 102 $600. Terms. OWNER Phone Rugby 6·1691." A road stretches through the image on an upward angle from left to right behind the sign. Pines line both sides of the road as it extends into the distance.
Date:
September 8-22, 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Holmes advertisement posted along the roadside near Boulder Bay, Big Bear Lake, 1945

H. H. West's Buick entering Jacksonville, Jacksonville, 1942

Description:
Photograph of H. H. West's Buick traveling down Oregon Route 238 and entering the city limits of Jacksonville, Oregon. Oregon Route 238 stretches on an angle from the lower left towards the horizon at center. H. H. West's Buick sits along the right side of the road in the near distance, left-of-center. It is viewed at an angle from the rear as it appears to travel away from the camera. Tall grasses line the right side of the road. At right, 2 signs posted on the side of the road read, "ENTERING JACKSONVILLE," and "OREGON 238." In the distance on the left side of the road, a house stands behind a utility poles that line the road.
Date:
July 2, 1942
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
H. H. West's Buick entering Jacksonville, Jacksonville, 1942