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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Irene Schmitz is misidentified as Frances West in the caption from the negative sleeve. Photograph of Mary A. West posing with fish in the campsite at Silver Lake while Irene Schmitz sits in the background. Mary A. West stands at center in camp and looks to the camera. She holds fish by the gills, one in each hand, as she poses. Behind her, a tarp stretched between tree trunks hangs over a table (obscured by Mary). Irene Schmitz sits at a smaller table behind Mary and beneath the tarp. A hammock stretches behind her and a tire rests against tree trunks to the right of her. Trees stand in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1076. Silver Lake trip 1914. Camp at Silver Lake. 1. Mrs Mary A. West with couple trout. Frances West in rear. 2 [handwritten:] + 3 [end handwritten]. 2 views of Buttress with a trout we had caught, and Ted McClellan's canvas canoe which we used on the lake. 2 films. [handwritten:] 4. [end handwritten] [5 crossed out] Buttress in camp with the trout. [handwritten:] 5. [end handwritten] [4 crossed out] Al Schmitz and I go out in the McClellan's canvas canoe for a couple of hours and have great sport. L to R: H.H.West. Frances West. Chester Schmitz. Elizabeth West. Al Schmitz. [handwritten:] 5 [end handwritten] [4 crossed out] films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1076_004 ark:/21198/zz002hs8jr
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Inyo National Forest (Calif. and Nev.) Camping--California--June Lake Fish--California Schmitz, Irene, b. 1908 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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