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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of Mertie West, Wes Witherby and Zetta Witherby milling about a gas station in Baker, California. Mertie West stands at left and looks to the camera with a purse under her arm and her hands clutched in front of her. Behind her to the right, Wes Witherby stands facing the right and looks away. Beyond Wes on the right, Zetta Witherby walks away from the camera towards the building in the background. At the far right, an unknown man dressed in white leans over the passenger side of a car (partial view). The building stretches across the top half of the image. The top portion of the building has, "[C]AFE STANDARD OIL PROD[...]," written on it. Beneath it, there is a covered, but open area with doors and windows. Text from negative sleeve: 226. Boulder Dam trip March 21, 22 and 23 1939. 674 miles. See Nos.224 & 225. Rest rooms on the desert near Hodge. Standard Oil Station at Baker. Zetta making for the rest room. Mertie and Wes at the left. The sign at Baker showing road to Death Valley. 2 negatives of the toilet at Lake Mead[.] The Dam. Intake towers. Boat landing at Lake Mead. 8 negatives.
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