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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of H. H. West, Jr. sitting in the rear seat of a canvas canoe while at the beach in Topanga. The capsule-shaped canoe enters the foreground at left. H. H. West, Jr. sits in the back of the canoe, left-of-center, and faces left as he turns to look to the camera from a cut-out portion of the canoe. The beach stretches beyond him. In the near distance at left, a woman lies beneath a beach umbrella. Further back at center, a tent stands. Kelp lines the beach as it extends into the distance. At right, beachgoers stand near the shoreline as small waves roll onto shore. Houses sit back from the shore in the distance at center and right. Up from the beach, cars are parked tandem along a road that runs along the base of the mountainside. Text from negative sleeve: 1301. Topango [sic] about 1922. 1. L to R: Ambrose Cline. H.H.West Jr - at this end of a raft in lagoon. 2. H.H.West Jr sitting in rear of a little canvas canoe. 3. L to R: Ambrose Cline. H.H.West Jr in the water in the lagoon. 4. L to R: Ambrose Cline. H.H.West Jr. 5. L to R: Ambrose Cline. H.H.West [handwritten:] ,JR. [end handwritten] Sitting down behind the concrete wall eating a pie they had been given. 5 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1301_003 ark:/21198/zz002hswwm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Beaches--California--Topanga Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Canoes--American--California--Topanga West, Henry Hebard, 1917-1998
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