Photograph of Cascade Mountain in Banff National Park, as viewed at a distance from a terrace at Banff Springs Hotel. The terrace stretches on an angle through the foreground, tapering as it approaches the left. A manicured lawn occupies the center of the terrace. Stone-paved walkways encircle the perimeter of the lawn. Pine saplings and other plants sit in planters on the walkway. A stone parapet lines the distant edge of the terrace. In the distance, Cascade Mountain rises at center.
Photograph of the Bow River Valley in Banff National Park, as viewed from an elevated perspective from the Banff Springs Hotel. In the lower left corner, the pool area of the hotel enters frame and is viewed from above. Beyond it, pines line the near landscape. The Bow River Valley stretches into the distance. The Bow River flows back at center. Mountains rise up from the valley floor on either side of the river. Tunnel Mountain enters frame at left. In the far distance, mountains stand at center.
Photograph of Mertie West standing at a viewpoint that overlooks the Bow River Valley and Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park. Grasses line the bottom edge of the image. A bus, parked beside the grass, enters frame from the left edge; it is viewed from the side, facing right. Beyond the bus, a drive stretches across the mid-ground. Mertie West stands on the drive, left-of-center. She faces left, but looks to the camera. Behind Mertie, the Bow River Valley stretches across the image and into the distance. The Bow River is forked, flowing through the valley at left and right. Tunnel Mountain rises at right, Sulphur Mountain rises in the far distance at center and another mountain rises along the left edge. Banff Springs Hotel is barely visible in the distance at the base of Sulphur Mountain and to the left of Tunnel Mountain.
Photograph of Mertie West standing on a large terrace at the Banff Springs Hotel. Mertie West stands in the foreground, right-of-center. She faces left and wears a coat draped over her shoulders. The balcony she stands on extends behind her through the foreground and mid-ground. Lounging chairs are grouped in clusters on the near side of a stone parapet that lines the back perimeter of the terrace. Other hotel guests stand along the parapet and look past it. Beyond the terrace, Mount Rundle stretches across the background.
Photograph of the Banff Springs Hotel, as viewed at a distance from a viewpoint on a drive in Banff and Banff National Park. Trees, mostly pines, stand in the foreground and mid-ground. Beyond the trees and in the distance, the Banff Springs Hotel stands at center. The Châteauesque hotel is viewed at an angle from the rear. A tree-covered mountainside rises behind the hotel.
Photograph of the indoor pool at the Banff Springs Hotel, as viewed from an elevated perspective. The rectangular pool is viewed from above and spans the width of the bottom edge. It narrows as it extends back, longways. A dozen or so people swim or play in the pool. At the far end of the pool, 3 archways stand, supported by 2 columns. A deck wraps around the pool at the far end and left side. A railed balcony sits above the deck. At left, a woman walks along the deck and towards the camera. Arched beams line the pool's ceiling. Lining the right side of the pool are arched windows that look out to the hotel's exterior.
Photograph of the outdoor swimming pool at the Banff Springs Hotel, as viewed from above. The camera looks down towards the swimming pool. It extends across the image on an upward angle from left to right. The back edge of the pool is curved. A few people are barely visible in the pool. Groups of people walk around the pool's back edge. Behind the pool, a manicured lawn stretches back and across the image. Hotel guests lounge in chairs dotting the lawn. A wooden fence lines the back perimeter of the lawn. Pine trees stand in the background.
Photograph of a girl from Toronto standing at a viewpoint that overlooks the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff and Banff National Park. The girl stands in profile at center. She faces right, but turns her head away from the camera. Behind her, pines and other vegetation grow across the mid-ground. In the distance, the Banff Springs Hotel stands at center. A mountainside stretches across the background behind it.
Photograph of 2 women and a man leaning over a parapet at Banff Springs Hotel and looking into the distance. A veranda stretches across the foreground. A chair sits along the left edge. Near the right edge, a man walks away from camera. At center, 2 women (left and center) and a man (right) lean over a low stone parapet that stretches across the image. They stand with their backs to the camera and face towards the distance, tilting their heads downward. Beyond the porch, mountains rise in the distance.
Photograph of guests at Banff Springs Hotel standing at the veranda's edge and looking out towards the Bow River Valley in Banff National Park. The large veranda stretches across the foreground. Its brick pavers appear to be damp. Chairs sit in clumps along the far end of the veranda. At center, a few guests lean over a low stone parapet that stretches across the image. They stand with their backs to the camera and face towards the Bow River Valley in the distance. Beyond the porch, mountains along the right and left (Tunnel Mountain) edges rise in the near distance. Further across the valley, mountains rise in the distance at center. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right.
Photograph looking from a veranda of the Banff Spings Hotel towards the Bow River Valley in Banff National Park. The grounds of the Banff Springs Hotel are visible below, in the lower left corner. Beyond the hotel grounds, Banff National Park stretches into the distance. Bow River flows through the valley from center and back towards the right. Pines grow along the base of Tunnel Mountain, which rises along the left edge. At right, pines obscure the view of another mountain rising along the right edge. Additional mountains stand in the distance at the far end of Bow River Valley at center. Four punched holes line the bottom edge at right.
