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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Frances (left) and Elizabeth (right) West stand behind a low boulder and pose for a photograph with H. H. West's limit (4) of sage hen. Both wear similar onesies and face square to the camera. Frances holds a shotgun by the barrel in her right hand. Elizabeth wears a bow in her hair. 4 dead sage hen lie in a row on the boulder in front of them. A hill rises in the background on the right and ground brush extends into the distance behind the girls. Text from negative sleeve: 363. Convict Lake, September 2, 1915. L to R: Holding up the sage hen: Elizabeth West. Frances West. L to R: Frances West holding the gun. Elizabeth West. L to R: Frances West holding the gun. Mrs George M. West. Elizabeth West. H.H.West's limit of sage hen. 3 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000363_001 ark:/21198/zz002hq703
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Firearms Game bird hunting--California Dead animals--California Grouse--California Children--California--Mammoth Lakes Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906
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