Rocky Mountain Tours bus stopped along the roadside, Banff vicinity, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Rocky Mountain Tours bus stopped along the roadside, Banff vicinity, 1947

Photographer

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

Date Created

June 29, 1947

Date

1947-06-29

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of a Rocky Mountain Tours Company bus stopped along the roadside in Banff National Park. A road stretches along the bottom edge on an upward angle from left to right. In the near distance and on the far side of the road, a bus is parked, left-of-center. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the side, facing left. Passengers aboard the bus are visible behind the bus's windows. One of the passengers is Mertie West. She sits at the first window behind the driver's seat and looks to the camera. Along the side of the bus, markings read, "BANFF - LAKE LOUISE - JASPER Rocky Mountain Tours Co." Pines stand behind the bus and beyond the road's shoulder. Mountains, obscured by the pine trees, rise in the background at center. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right.
According to the negative sleeve, this set of photographs is captured in color. The scans of these images are in black and white.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2283. Color. Banff trip June 1947 Banff June 29, 1947. Banff Hotel. Bow Valley. Bow valley and bridge to Banff 2 films. Terrace at Banff. Our sight seeing bus. Mertie West in seat behind driver. 6 films

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

Alberta--Banff

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Buses--Canadian--Alberta--Banff
Banff National Park (Alta.)
Tourists--Canada--Banff