Dorothy Varnum stands on a podium next to a large campfire. A man sits nearby on the podium at a piano. Spectators sit and stand, facing Dorothy. Inscription with photo reads: "Jul 6, 1940. As Social Executive in the Idlewild Inn in the San Jacinto Moutains, above Palm Springs (the tram goes to the top). Dorothy Dorothy (then Dorothy Varnum) conducted a nightly campfire program and community 'sing' outside during the week, and inside the Inn lobby on Sundays. As director of entertainment she traveled from S.F. to San Diego visiting the big hotels." With photo is another inscription "This photograph is not to be reproduced without written permission - Claude Hess."

Meeting of the International Social Executives for the West Coast. Dorothy Dorothy, fifth on far right side, sits wearing a white net hat. The other women (unidentified) dine on what looks like chicken and pasta. (white hat).

Dorothy Dorothy riding a horse in Palm Springs, California. Another horse stands in front of her, mostly out of frame.

Two women and a child stand together in front of a flag pole that looks as though it has a scarecrow atop it. Inscription with photo reads: "Halloween, Cedar Street 1953; Identified from left to right: 1. Ethel McCullough, 2. Clara Cook, 3. Virginia; Riverside, California." Street Address: Cedar Street

Airplane flies over mountains in Calfornia, presumably headed to San Diego. Image captured midflight most likely in another aircraft. Inscription with image reads: "40 passenger Canyair-Lines, San Diego; Vern Willis, Dist. Sales Mgr. Western Airlines, no 1st."

Dorothy Dorothy and an unidentified female passenger in her "low-wing Kinner airplane" in San Francisco. Dorothy wears sunglasses and the passenger wears a fur coat.