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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. Photograph of Mertie West sitting in a chair on the lawn of the Chateau Lake Louise hotel in Banff National Park. A walkway stretches back from the bottom edge and along the left edge. A grass lawn extends to the right of it. At right, Mertie West sits in a chair on the lawn. She is viewed close-up and looks to the camera. About a dozen empty chairs sit in loose, arcing row to the left of her. Behind Mertie, a tiered bed of poppies stretches up and back towards the left along the distant edge of the lawn. Atop the flower bed, the hotel stands in partial view, rising beyond the top frame. The Painter Wing enters frame from right and extends towards the left. Arched windows line the lowest level. To the left of the hotel, pines stand in the background. Six punched holes line the bottom edge. Text from negative sleeve: Color 2314. Banff trip June 1947. Lake Louise June 29, 1947. 1 Poppies in front hotel 2 Mertie West in chair in front poppies 3 Mertie West on walk 3 films
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2314_002 ark:/21198/zz002j3db1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Leisure--Canada--Lake Louise Poppies--Canada--Lake Louise Hotels--Canada--Lake Louise Banff National Park (Alta.) West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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