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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. By 1900 H. H. West and other members of his family lived in Los Angeles. Barn on the West family's former property. The barn has a cupola. It is surrounded by a wooden fence and the side of it has a slanted roof. There is a utility pole with wires extending from it beyond. Next to the house, in the distance, there are outbuildings. At the left of the negative, there is a sliver of another image visible. Text from negative sleeve: 775. East Red Oak, Iowa. 1900. The barn on the old West home place. Was built about 1878, as I was a little boy and was trying to haul a studding up through the little door at the upper right hand corner of the barn, when it got away from me and dragged me out the door and sailed me right out onto a pile of cinders father had piled up. Scared me to death; also father, but turned out I was unhurt. This barn was a replica of the barn father had built when he built the home, but one Sunday as we were visiting out at Meads, it caught fire and burned down. Cleaning out the debris later the workman found a wash pan with some eggs in it, and it was thought some of the boys in the neighborhood had come over and robbed the hen house and tried to boil the eggs in a wash pan when the fire got away from them Never did learn. The lean to was added after we left Red Oak. From the roof of this barn father and I watched the cyclone north of Red Oak, that destroyed the town of Grinnell, I think it was; may have been Atlantic. 2 negatives.
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