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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Frances Cline, Frances West and Elizabeth West were about 8, 6 and 9 years old, respectively, in 1912. They look older than that in this photograph. Photograph, from left to right, of Frances Cline, Frances West and Elizabeth West wading in up to knee-deep water in Big Tujunga Creek. They stand in a circle at center and gaze down at something contained within a piece of cloth which is being held by Frances Cline and Elizabeth West. Frances Cline wears a white hat, dark bloomers and a plaid-printed dress. Frances West is partially obscured as she stands behind Elizabeth West on the right. Elizabeth wears a white blouse and white shorts. Rocks line the creek's bank on a diagonal from the upper left to the lower right. 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_012 ark:/21198/zz002hpthm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Children--California--Sunland-Tujunga Wading Streams--California--Sunland-Tujunga Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906 Cline, Harriet Frances, b. 1904 or 05
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