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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Elizabeth West (front, left) watching Mary West (center) ride a donkey through a shallow stream along a trail near Mount Wilson. Elizabeth stands in the foreground and in partial shadow with her back to the camera. She faces towards the center of the image where her mother is riding a donkey through a stream. Mary sits atop a donkey with her back to camera and faces right. She fords the stream and approaches the trail that emerges from the right side it. Two other people, obscured by shadow, sit atop donkeys on the near side of the stream and await their turn to cross. 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_002 ark:/21198/zz002hr89p
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Riding--California--Mount Wilson Donkeys--California--Mount Wilson Streams--California--Mount Wilson Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) Trails & paths--California--Mount Wilson Siemsen, Elizabeth West, 1903-1966 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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