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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from front to back, of Mary West, Elizabeth West and Frances West traveling along a trail at Mount Wilson. A donkey stands at center, facing camera, in front of Mary West. Mary West walks behind the donkey in the foreground. Behind her and to the left, Elizabeth and Frances West sit on a donkey and ride it along the trail. The path they travel curves up and to the left from the lower right corner. Shrubbery covers the hillside behind them. Text from negative sleeve: 683. Mount Wilson, winter 1909. On the trail. Mrs H.H.West behind the burro. Elizabeth West with Frances West in rear. Close up of Mrs H.H.West with Frances West on leading burro. Some other party on the trail following us seems to have a banner of some sort. Here we are at Orchard camp, half way up. Elizabeth West on burro at Orchard Camp. Two views of the Hotel at summit of Mt Wioson[sic]. Old cabin at [crossed out:] Starin's [end crossed out] [handwritten:] Strains [end handwritten] camp on the other side of Mt Wilson. I slept one night in that old cabin about 1890. The tower at the summit of Mt Wilson. 8 negatives
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0683_005 ark:/21198/zz002hr8mb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Riding--California--Mount Wilson Donkeys--California--Mount Wilson Wilson, Mount (Calif. : Mountain) Trails & paths--California--Mount Wilson Burgess, Dorothea Mae Siemsen, 1926-2003 Wells, Frances Lucille West, b. 1906 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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