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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West standing in a crossroads and posing in front of an old building in Jacksonville, Oregon. A dirt roads passes across the foreground on a slight angle from left to right. A crossroad at left extends into the distance. Mertie West stands in the middle of the intersection in the near distance, left-of-center. She is turned slightly right and looks towards the camera. On the street corner behind her stands an old building. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the side. Two doors and 2 windows sit in the front of the brick building at right. It has a sloped roof and extends back and to the left, behind Mertie. Another building attached to it stands to the right and extends out-of-frame. An arcade stretches across the front of the ground floor. Utility lines overhead run parallel to the street. Text from negative sleeve: 1615. Yellowstone trip 1942. Thursday, July 2. 1942. 1. Entering Jacksonville, Oregon. 2. Mertie West in Jacksonville street in front of one of the oldest brick buildings across street, a stone above the door says erected in 1855, and where pioneers went for refuge from Indian raids. 3. H.H.West standing in doorway of the old building, being used as a Museum but was not open. 4. A close up of the building. 5. Indian baskets in the window of the old building. 5 films [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]
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