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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. H. H. West's daughters (left to right) Frances and Elizabeth stand in the surf. A man with his back to the camera stands on the beach. He wears a hat and a cloth tied around his waist. There is another girl in the water behind the West sisters. Elizabeth wears a large bow in here hair. There are boats in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 272. Catalina Island. About 1910. Boats in the Avalon Bay. (2 negatives) Elizabeth and Frances West. (3 negatives) Boys diving for coins on arrival of the boat at the pier at Avalon. Sugarloaf in the rear. Now gone. (2 negatives) Bathers on the beach at Avalon. 8 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000272_004 ark:/21198/zz002hq2z5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Beaches--California--Santa Catalina Island Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
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