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.
Photograph depicts the Rocky Mountains, possibly near Lake Louise.
Mountains reflected in glacier fed lake in foreground of image; steeply sloping mountains converge in background with snow-capped peaks behind; trees and edge of building in bottom right corner of image.
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).
Photograph depicts a river and the Rocky Mountains.
White water river with rocky riverbed in foreground of image with large shale deposits in middle of image; rocky, snow-capped mountain peaks in background.
Photograph depicts Mt. Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park.
Dirt mountains road in left foreground of image; glacial deposits and snow covered mountain face in middle of image; ridged, snow capped mountain peak in background.