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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of H. H. West's Buick and Dave F. Smith's EMF parked in tandem along the aqueduct road by Owens Lake. The dirt road passes through the image on a curve. It enters frame at left, juts out towards center before curving back to the left and disappearing behind the cars and a mound. H. H. West's Buick is parked nearest to the camera and Dave F. Smith's EMF is behind it. They are both viewed at an angle from the front and face left. Someone (Nella West?) sits in the back seat of the Buick and reads a newspaper. Dave and Isabelle Smith sit in the front seat of their EMF and look out towards the right. Someone (Mary A. West?) stands by the right side of the EMF with their back towards the camera. Large rocks lie in the dirt off to the side of the road in the foreground at right. A rocky, earthen mound stands on the left side of the road behind the cars. Silhouetted mountains rise in the distance at right. Text from negative sleeve: 1126. Smith West tour August 1913. Owens Lake. 1. Owens Lake from the road. 2. Our cars along the Aqueduct road by the lake. My Buick is leading. 3. Nella West reading a paper in the car, Mrs Mary A West with binoculars. 3 films.
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1126_002 ark:/21198/zz002hsd71
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Rest stops--California--Owens Lake Automobile travel--California Automobiles--American--California--Owens Lake West, Nella Adeline, 1874-1941 Smith, Isabelle, b. 1886 or 87 Smith, David Franklin, 1882-1960 Shepard, Mary Adelbert Teel West, 1883-1960
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