H. H. West Jr. and William Shaw sit in H. H. West's car en route to Twin Lakes from Los Angeles, 1929

Item Overview

Title

H. H. West Jr. and William Shaw sit in H. H. West's car en route to Twin Lakes from Los Angeles, 1929

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

August 1929

Date

1929-08

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

William Shaw was H. H. West's brother-in-law.
H. H. West Jr. and William Shaw sit in H. H. West's car en route to Twin Lakes from Los Angeles. West hangs his legs out of the car and Shaw sits in the passenger seat. There is luggage strapped to the running board and to the back of the car. There is a post in the foreground. There are mountains in the background.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 141. Twin Lakes, Bridgeport, Calif. August 1929. [Handwritten: 1929.] See #139, 140. En route from Los Angeles to Twin Lakes with our Chandler car. Will Shaw and H. H. West Jr. 2 negatives. H. H. West Jr. giving the car water near Indian Wells. We hike up to Barney Lake 4 miles above Twin Lakes. A picture of Barney Lake with plenty of snow on the mountain at other end of the lake. 4 negatives.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998
Shaw, William Henry, 1870-1960

Location

California

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Automobiles--American--California