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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white. A poorly lit or developed photograph of the front of The Empress Hotel in Victoria, as viewed from the street. The Châteauesque hotel stands in the distance at center and extends beyond the left and right frames. A sidewalk stretches along the bottom edge and a walkway leads up to the ivy-covered arcade and porch. A woman and child at left walk with their backs to the camera as they approach the hotel. Atop the veranda, a British flag flies from a flagpole. Ivy covers the entire front of the building as it stretches upward. Windows for 5-stories are visible on the front of the building above the porch. A balcony stretches across the front of the dormers at top. The dormers appear to be cut off. Empty space occupies the top third of the negative. Two white streaks enter frame along the left edge. A few punch holes line the right side of the film. Text from negative sleeve: 2220. Color Alaska Trip Victoria Aug.1, 1946 1. Mertie West next to rear in Butchart's Garden 2. Mertie West in the garden 3. In the garden 4. No good. No.5 also cut off. [handwritten:] { [end handwritten] 6. Part of No.5 and something [hand drawn line down from "{"] [handwritten:] Front of Empress Hotel showing British flag on staff [scribbled over:] 7-8 Butchart Garden[?] Theatre [end scribbled over/end handwritten]
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