Mertie West stands on a riverbank in front of Bow Falls, Banff, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West stands on a riverbank in front of Bow Falls, Banff, 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

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 standing on a riverbank in front of the Bow Falls in Banff and Banff National Park. She stands in the near distance at center, in profile and facing right. She stands on the bank of the Bow River. The bank arcs back to the left and then arcs back again towards center. Several other visitors to the falls mill about on the bank behind and to the left of Mertie. The Bow River flows to the right of her and towards the camera. Directly behind Mertie, Bow Falls cascades. Pine tree-covered hills rise up from either side of the falls. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2290. Color Banff trip June 1947. At Banff June 29, 1947. Tea Garden at Banff. Mertie West coming down steps above. The Bow River in front of hotel. H.H.West on Bow River below Hotel. Mrs H.H.West on Bow River below hotel. Mrs H.H.West and two girls from Toronto, Can. at Tea Garden walk. Ditto at Bow River below Hotel. 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

Longitude

51.165585

Latitude

-115.559566

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Waterfalls--Canada--Banff
Bow River (Alta.)
Banff National Park (Alta.)
Sightseers--Canada--Banff
Bow River Valley (Alta.)