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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. An underexposed photograph of Glen Velzy and Al Schmitz helping to get H. H. West's Buick out of Big River, where it is stuck. The car is viewed from the side and faces right. The front end extends out-of-frame on the right. A couple of wooden beams create a lever and fulcrum near the rear tire. Someone sits with their back to the camera on the near end of a beam that extends out from between the spokes of the rear wheel towards the camera. Another beam in the water rests beneath it and runs perpendicularly to it. A man in shadow walks behind the rear end of the car with his back to camera. The river flows in the foreground. Text from negative sleeve: 700 Mendocino County trip 1915. Down by the outbuildings near the ranch house the boys commenced to throw up tin cans and shoot at them with their rifles. 2 negatives. Poor negative of three of the ranch boys. Down below camp one day I tried to run my Buick across Big River and got stuck right out in the center of the river. We had to wade around with ties and block the car up and make a tie road to back out on. Al Schmitz and Glen Velzy helping. 2 films. 5 negatives
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0700_002 ark:/21198/zz002hrc8m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fords (Stream crossings)--California Automobiles--American--California--Mendocino County Automobile breakdowns Rivers--California--Mendocino County
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