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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mary A. West standing over a cooking pot and Chester Schmitz sitting by the stream in camp during a trip to Silver Lake. Mary A. West stands, left-of-center, in the near distance and slightly obscured by shrubbery to her left. She looks down as she seems to wash clothing in a pot. To her right, Chester Schmitz sits with his back to the camera. In the foreground, a pile of broken sticks sits at center. Behind and to the right of it, the camp stove sits on the ground with 2 pots sitting on its burners. A rack stands to the immediate right of it. Tall grasses line the back edge of the camp and mountains rise in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1072. Silver Lake trip 1914. 1. Silver Lake uspoiled [sic] as it was then. 2. Ice cold stream coming into Silver lake from east, where we made camp. Swell place. 3. Our camp in the Aspens. 4. Our camp in the Aspens. Al Schmitz walking into the camp. 5. Our stove, with Mrs Mary A. West. Chester Schmitz sitting on bank of the little stream. 6. Our camp with Mrs Mary A West. 6 films.
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1072_005 ark:/21198/zz002hs7zg
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Stoves Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.) Camping--California--June Lake Outdoor cookery--California--June Lake Schmitz, Chester Smith, 1910-1977 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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