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Title
Drinking fountain standing on the roadside, Mendocino County vicinity, 1942
Contributor
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Date Created and/or Issued
July 4, 1942
1942-07-04
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
West (H. H.) Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph of a drinking fountain standing along the side of the road. A stone constructed drinking fountain stands in the foreground at left. In front of the fountain's base, a concrete slab extends towards the camera. A pipe runs beneath the slab and water flows from it and into a ditch which stretches towards the camera. Beyond the fountain, a road extends across the mid-ground on a downward angle from right to left. On the far side of the road, a car (presumably H. H. West's Buick) is parked on the opposite roadside. It sits right-of-center and is viewed from the side, facing left. Beyond the car, trees cover hillsides that occupy the background.
Text from negative sleeve: 1621. Yellowstone trip, 1942. Saturday, July 4, 1942. 1. Scenery along the Coast below Crescent City. Our car in foreground. 2. A rock alongside the road with a sign saying Black Bart and other stage robbers used to hide behind it and stop the stages. 3. A drinking fount on the road. 4. Eel River. Quite a stream. There are two men fishing in the stream. They are on the rocks about the middle of the picture. 5. Mertie West goes in an abandoned home yard at Cloverdale, Calif. and picks some plums. 5 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_1621_003
ark:/21198/zz002htpkh
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Drinking fountains--California--Mendocino County
Automobiles--American--California--Mendocino County
Automobile travel--California
Roads--California
Source
West (H. H.) Collection

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