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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. In the caption, the woman in the middle is identified as Elizabeth West. This person does not appear to be Elizabeth West. A blurry photograph, from front to back, of Frances West, an unknown woman and Mary West riding donkeys along a mountain trail near Mount Wilson. Frances leads the group as she rides her donkey towards the camera. Another woman rides a donkey behind her. At the back of the group, Mary West veers her donkey slightly towards the right where two men sit on the trail's edge. A hillside covered brush stands to the left of the trail and mountains rise in the distance at right. Text from negative sleeve: 681. Mount Wilson. Winter about 1909. Elizabeth West watching her mother on a burro. Mrs H.H.West and Frances West on burro. On the trail. Frances West leading, Elizabeth West and Mrs H.H.West in rear. 3 negatives
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0681_001 ark:/21198/zz002hr885
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Riding--California--Mount Wilson Donkeys--California--Mount Wilson Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) Trails & paths--California--Mount Wilson Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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