Photograph depicts the Banff Springs Hotel in Fairmont, Alberta, showing a summer view of the hotel and surrounding Rocky Mountains.
The hotel was commissioned by Cornelius Van Horne, the general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Designed in the Late Victorian chateau style by New York architect Bruce Price, the hotel opened on June 1, 1988 and was rebuilt in 1928 after a fire destroyed much of the original structure.
Reflection of mountains in placid lake in foreground of image; snow covered evergreen trees in right of image; snow covered, rocky mountains in background.
Reflection of mountains in placid lake in foreground of image; snow covered evergreen trees in right of image; snow covered, rocky mountains in background.
Photograph depicts a mountain and trees reflected in water.
Mountain and trees reflected in placid lake in foreground of image; foliage and trees extending off bank and into water; rocky, jagged, snow capped mountain in background.
Jagged shaped mountain with extensive shale deposits at bottom; partially white faced on left side of mountain (image is extremely high contrast, making it difficult to distinguish whether white is snow or merely lighter patch of dirt and rock).
