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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West sitting on the back bumper of H. H. West's Buick and posing in front of Mount Hood. A mountain road passes through the image on a curved angle from the lower left corner and back towards right-center. H. H. West's Buick is parked in the near distance at center, alongside the road. It is viewed from the rear. Mertie West sits on the far-right side of the bumper and looks to the camera. A hillside slopes up from the road at right. Pines cover a landscape that stretches along the left side of the road and back towards Mount Hood. Mount Hood is covered in snow as it rises in the distance at center. Text from negative sleeve: 1602. Yellowstone trip 1942. Sunday, June 28, 1942. 1. On the highway into Portland. Beautiful road and scenery. Mt Hood in rear. Mertie West on Buick's bumper. 2. The bridge over the Zigzag river. Near here the Butler party camped for Mrs Hutchinson to have her baby. 2 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_1602_001 ark:/21198/zz002htmr4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Automobile travel--Oregon Hood, Mount (Or.) Automobiles--American--Oregon--Portland West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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