Mertie West poses on the walkway in front of Lake Louise, Lake Louise, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West poses on the walkway in front of Lake Louise, Lake Louise, 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 Mertie West standing on a walkway at Chateau Lake Louise in front of Lake Louise. A wide walkway enters frame from the bottom edge at left and stretches back on an angle towards center. Flower beds line both sides of the walkway in the foreground. In the near distance, the walkway dead-ends into another walkway that that passes horizontally through the mid-ground. At center, Mertie West stands at this crossroads in the near distance. She faces towards the camera and is viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Behind her, a manicured lawn lines the back edge of the walkway, extending back towards the edge of Lake Louise. Lake Louise sits in the background. At the far end of the lake, mountains rise. Six punched holes line the bottom edge.
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: Color 2314. Banff trip June 1947. Lake Louise June 29, 1947. 1 Poppies in front hotel 2 Mertie West in chair in front poppies 3 Mertie West on walk 3 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--Lake Louise

Longitude

51.41734

Latitude

-116.217791

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Hotels--Canada--Lake Louise
Louise, Lake (Alta. : Lake)
Rocky Mountains
Banff National Park (Alta.)