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Title: Kate Mertz sitting and Fanny Nichols and Charlie Mertz standing on their front porch, Santa Ana, about 1899
Contributor: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued: 1899
[circa 1899]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: West (H. H.) Collection
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Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph, from left to right, of Kate Mertz, Fanny Nichols and Charlie Mertz on the front porch of their ranch house in Santa Ana. A dirt pathway stretches along the bottom edge of the image in the foreground. Beyond it, patchy grass extends up to the ranch house standing in the near distance. The house is viewed from the front at a slight angle. Kate Mertz sits on the front porch at center. To her right, Fanny Nichols and Charlie Mertz stand on the porch. A tree stands in front of the house and to the left of Kate. A hammock hangs from the tree. A windmill rises behind the right side of the house. Tree tops are visible in the distance behind the house.
Text from negative sleeve: 1210. Santa Ana, California, avout [sic] 1899. Nichols Ranch. Fanny Nichols aunt Miss Kate Metrz [sic] and her brother Charles Mertz buy a ranch at Santa Ana. I went down one Sunday and spent the day and took these photos. 1. The ranch house, windmill and drying apricots. 2. The ranch and windmill house. 3. The house, front view, with Aunt Kate Mertz sitting on porch, Fanny standing and Charlie Mertz at right. The hammock under the tree in front. 4. 5. Two pictures of Charlie Mertz and the drying apricots. 6. H.H.West in the watermelon patch with a melon. Poor film. 6 films
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1998_1210_001
ark:/21198/zz002hsmdh
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Windmills--California--Santa Ana
Ranches--California--Santa Ana
Nichols, Frances, b. 1879
Mertz, Charles F., b. 1848
Mertz, Catherine, b. 1844
Source: West (H. H.) Collection

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