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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mertie West was H. H. West's wife. Mertie West sits on a wooden platform at the Southern Pacific Railroad depot. She wears a turban and glasses and holds her purse in her lap. There is a car parked behind her, and a truck next to that. There is a fire hydrant at the right. A building is at the left and there are trees in the background. Text from negative sleeve: 1195. San Luis Obispo, California, Sunday, March 8, 1942. About noon. 1. 2. The double film shows the S. P. R. R. station at San Luis Obispo, and the Bulletin Board at the end. 3. Mertie West, with our Buick in the rear, and behind that is the Army truck which brot [sic] the soldiers from the camp, four miles away, to the depot. 4. The soldiers fool with a little truck on the platform while waiting for their train. 5. The soldiers as they unloaded on the station platform. 5 films.
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Identifier
uclamss_1998_1195_005 ark:/21198/zz002hskhk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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