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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 posing in front of the Chateau Lake Louise hotel in Banff National Park. A walkway enters frame from the bottom edge at center and extends back. Flowers line the left side of the walk in the foreground. Mertie West stands on the walkway, in the near distance, at center. She holds a coat as she looks to the camera. Another walkway, to the right of Mertie, merges with the one at center. Behind Mertie, the walkway curves to the right and out-of-frame. Landscaped grounds surround it. Chateau Lake Louise stands across the background; it enters frame at left and stands 10-stories tall. An arcade lines the ground floor and a hexagon-shaped tower juts forward on the right side of the building. Five punched holes line the right edge. Text from negative sleeve: Color 2319. Banff trip July 1947. Lake Louise June 29, 1947. 1 Mertie West on walk 2 Swimming pool, terrace and poppies 3 Mertie West in chair in front of hotel and poppies 4 Mertie West & hotel 5 Mertie West and swimming pool 6 Artist painted at lake edge
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2319_002 ark:/21198/zz002j3dxt
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Hotels--Canada--Lake Louise Banff National Park (Alta.)
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