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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West bending over a camp stove with Forrest and Agnes Whitaker behind her next to a folding camp table and their car parked on the left at their camp site among large boulders. The area became a U.S. National Monument in 1936 and then Joshua Tree National Park in 1994. Mertie West was H. H. West's second wife. Forrest Whitaker was her brother and Agnes was Forrest's wife. Text from negative sleeve: 109. Whitewater-Morongo Valley, Calif. May 21, 1933. We camp for the night among the big rocks near Key Ranch. Forrest Whitaker with his Buick, Agnes Whitaker and Mertie West. 2 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000109_002 ark:/21198/zz002hpjfq
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Camping--California--Joshua Tree Joshua Tree National Park (Calif.) Mojave Desert Whitaker, Agnes Hawley, 1878-1967 Whitaker, Forrest, 1877-1972 West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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