Spectators watch the preparations for a track event at the Olympic Games. There are people on the field near the track. There are spectators scattered throughout the stands, including a man in a hat who is in the foreground of the photograph.
Photograph of the Albert Schmitz family cabin at Lake Arrowhead, with a stone wall in front, where the H. H. West family also stayed during a summer vacation.
Photograph of tablets inset into the garden wall of the Old North Memorial Garden in Boston. The brick, garden wall stretches across the image. At center, one tablet is set into the wall. Tablets to the left and right of it are obscured by shadows cast by surrounding trees. The shadows naturally frame the tablet at center.
Photograph, from left to right, of Harry Schmitz and Wilfrid Cline, Jr. standing in the distance at their campsite along a bank of Cow Creek, east of Redding. They stand in the distance at center near the creek's bank and face towards one another. Their gear sits on the ground to the right Wilfrid. A car is parked nearer to camera to the left of them. The car is viewed an an angle from the front and the side; it faces towards the right. The car sits parked in the middle of a dirt road. The road enters from the left, curving towards the right as it approaches the camera. A bridge stands in the background at left. Cow Creek flows behind and to the right of Harry and Wilfrid. Trees stand in the background.
H. H. West's wife, Mary, poses on a front lawn with her daughters, Elizabeth and Frances. Mrs. West crouches down and holds Frances's hand. Frances sits in the stroller and has a cloth tied around her waist. Elizabeth stands behind Frances with her hands on the back of the stroller. There are houses, trees, and utility poles in the background.
Photograph of about 5-6 men working on top of a frozen Jackson Lake to remove snow. The man on the left stands on the lake holding a broom. To his right, a man wearing ice skates pushes a plow-like apparatus. To his right, two men use brooms to remove the snow. To the right of them, a man drives a tractor across the lake. In the distance, another person stands on the ice. On the opposite side of the lake, a small structure with large chimney sits along the shore left-of-center of the photograph. A hillside covered in trees and snow slopes down towards the lake on the left and another hillside covered in trees and snow rises up in the background on the right. A white dwelling sits in the gap between these two hillsides in the background. In the foreground at right, a piping fixture rises out of the snow-covered ground.
Henry Hebard West was a Los Angeles resident, Southern Pacific Railroad employee, and candid photographer. His photograph album contains images of Los Angeles and vicinity, but also includes many photos of travels to Northern California, the Midwest, and New England. Most of the photos are portraits of the West family in Los Angeles, where they lived at 240 S. Griffin Avenue, in a house built by the photographer's father. The photos provide a first-hand look at the architecture, interior decoration, furniture, clothing, hair styles, and transportation of the period. They document the life of the West family over a span of forty years, as they age, marry, raise children, enjoy outings to nearby city parks, beaches, hotels, and missions, and vacation together in Northern California, returning again and again to places like Yosemite, Silver Lake, Gem Lake, June Lake, Convict Lake, and Minnelusa to camp; sled; hike; trout fish; and hunt deer, rabbits, doves, and sage hens.
People wait for the ferry to Oakland. The crowd is almost exclusively made up of men. There are people on the wharf, as well as on the ferry. Two American flags fly on the ferry. A sign on the front reads, "walk your horses" and a beam in the background has the word "Wellington" printed on it. There are wires overhead and tracks in the foreground.