Mertie West lounges in chair in front of Chateau Lake Louise, Lake Louise, 1947

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West lounges in chair in front of Chateau 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

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 sitting in a chair on the lawn of the Chateau Lake Louise hotel in Banff National Park. Chairs dot a grass lawn that stretches across the foreground. Mertie West sits in a chair on the lawn at center. She looks to the camera. A man sits in a chair to the right of her. Behind and to the left of Mertie, several other guests lounge in chairs on the lawn. A tiered and poppy-covered terrace stretches back and to the left along the back edge of the lawn. Beyond the terrace, the hotel stands in partial view, rising beyond the top frame. The Painter Wing enters frame from right and extends towards the left. Arched windows line the lowest level and balconies line a few of the upper levels. To the left of the hotel, pines stand in the background. Six punched holes line the bottom edge.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Color 2319. Banff trip July 1947. Lake Louise June 29, 1947. 1 Mertie West on walk 2 Swimming pool, terrace and poppies 3 Mertie West in chair in front of hotel and poppies 4 Mertie West & hotel 5 Mertie West and swimming pool 6 Artist painted at lake edge

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

51.417487

Latitude

-116.218015

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Leisure--Canada--Lake Louise
Hotels--Canada--Lake Louise
Banff National Park (Alta.)