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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Richard Siemsen posing with a cane while standing next to a furniture sale sign on the front lawn of H. H. West's residence on Griffin Avenue. Richard Siemsen stands in the near distance, left-of-center, on the front lawn. He looks to the camera and holds George M. West's cane out to the right. To the left of Richard, a sign posted in front of the house reads, "FURNITURE FOR SALE." Behind Richard, the front of the West's home on Griffin Avenue stretches across the background. It is viewed at an angle from the front and enters frame at left. Directly behind Richard, from left to right, Mertie West and Maud F. West stand beneath the arch of the front porch. From the front porch, a walkway extends on a downward angle towards the right. Wayne West stands on the far side of the walkway with his back turned to camera. Beyond him, a neighbor's house stands in the background at right. Text from negative sleeve: 2097. Los Angeles, Calif. May 1944. 2223 Griffin Avenue. 1 Left to right: Dorothea (Siemsen) Burgess. Alfred Siemsen. Richard Siemsen. 2 We are selling our furniture. Richard Siemsen by the sign, with George M.West cane. On porch is Mertie West and Mrs Wayne West, and back to camera is Wayne West.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2097_001 ark:/21198/zz002j2fg4
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Signs (Notices) Secondhand sales--California--Los Angeles West, Maud Foreman, 1885-1976 West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 West, Wayne Warren, 1881-1965 Siemsen, Richard Alfred, b. 1929
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