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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of Frances West and Elizabeth West scrambling around a boulder near Big Tujunga Creek. In the foreground at left, Frances West looks down as she takes a step over a small pool of water towards the camera. She holds her skirt and braces herself against the boulder on the right. Elizabeth West dashes behind the boulder on the right. Another boulder lies in the background on the left. Both girls wear dark-colored skirts and white blouses. Frances West and Elizabeth West were about 6 and 9 years old, respectively, in 1912. They look older than that in this photograph. Text from negative sleeve: 200. Big Tejunga [sic], Calif. 1912. Bessie McGee Velzy and Mrs H. H. West. 15 pictures of Elizabeth West, Frances West and Frances Cline playing in Big Tejunga [sic] Creek. 16 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000200_007 ark:/21198/zz002hptb1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Children--California--Sunland-Tujunga Boulders--California Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
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