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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Text from negative sleeve: 706. Newport Beach, Calif. April 1914. See negative #631 - Laguna Beach. Glen Velzy and I had been fishing at Laguna, and on the way home stopped at Newport Beach and took some photos of our catch. 7 pictures of myself with our fish. 4 pictures of Glen Velzy with our fish. 2 pictures of myself on the Newport Pier with a big sea bass some fellow had caught. 2 pictures of the fellow who caught the big sea bass. Now unknown. 15 negatives. Photograph of H. H. West posing while standing behind fish hanging from a wooden beam in Newport Beach. H. H. West stands right-of-center and gazes off towards the left. He rests one hand to his hip and extends the other out to the right to hold a fishing pole. About a couple dozen fish he and Glen Velzy caught dangle vertically from a wooden beam that spans the image horizontally in front of H. H. Sands bags sit piled up to the right of and behind H. H. Beyond the sand bags, a building stands. In the far distance at left, a pier is visible.
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_0706_003 ark:/21198/zz002hrdns
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fishing--California Piers & wharves--California--Newport Beach Fish--California West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
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