View looking across Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park towards Vancouver, Vancouver, 1947

Item Overview

Title

View looking across Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park towards Vancouver, Vancouver, 1947

Photographer

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

Date Created

July 1, 1947

Date

1947-07-01

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.
Photograph of the Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park and the distant Vancouver skyline. Tall grasses grow along the bottom edge of the image in the foreground. Lost Lagoon stretches behind it, across the image, and into the distance. Beyond the opposite bank, a few Vancouver skyscrapers rise in the far distance at center. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2285. Color Banff trip June 1947. Vancouver, B.C. July 1, 1947. The zoo at Stanley Park. Mertie West carrying her coat at left. Bed of purple iris in park. The park lake. The bathing beach. 2 films Mertie West in Rose garden. 6 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

British Columbia--Vancouver

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.)
Cityscapes
Lakes & ponds--Canada--Vancouver