Mertie West admires Butchart Gardens, Victoria, 1946

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West admires Butchart Gardens, Victoria, 1946

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

August 1, 1946

Date

1946-08-01

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

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 Mertie West admiring the the flower gardens of Butchart Gardens in Victoria, British Columbia. Mertie West stands on a walkway, left-of-center. She faces to the right towards a bed of flowers growing along the right edge of the walkway. Her face is obscured by shadow. The walkway she stands upon stretches back on an angle from left to center and then turns towards the left and out-of-frame. The flowers or flowering shrubbery lines the rightmost edge of the walkway and stretches back into the distance. Trees stand in the background. Several punch holes line both the top and bottom edges.

Caption

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]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

British Columbia--Victoria

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Butchart Gardens (Victoria, B.C.)
Sightseers--British Columbia--Victoria