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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of H. H. West's Buick stopped along the road with Mount Hood rising in the far distance. A dirt road stretches from the foreground and into the distance at center. Along the right side of the road in the near distance, H. H. West's Buick is parked. It is viewed at an angle from the rear. The roadside slopes up at left. A tractor sits atop the slope and fencing lines the top of the slope as it extends towards the horizon. Utility poles line the right side of the road. Plains stretch from the right side of the road towards low mountains. In the far distance, right-of-center, a snow-covered Mount Hood is visible rising above silhouetted mountains. Text from negative sleeve: 1601. Yellowstone trip 1942. Sunday, June 28, 1942. 1. On the road from Shearer's [sic] Bridge toward Portland. First view of Mt Hood in the distance. 2. There was some kind of a horse race near Government Camp on the highway and we stopped to see one of the racers, who was being turned up into a ravine by a motorcycle officer who had stopped us out of the way. 3. We get directions at Government Camp how to get to Summit Prairie, where father says they camped. H.H.West at Summit Prairie. Mt Hood in rear. 3 films. [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_1601_001 ark:/21198/zz002htmnk
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dirt roads--Oregon--Wasco County Automobile travel--Oregon Hood, Mount (Or.) Automobiles--American--Oregon--Wasco County
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