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Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs Alberta
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Backs!

View of people looking out onto a body of water. Most likely Crownest Lake. Title of photograph could refer to the image where only the backs of people are shown.

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Grand rapids, Athabasca River

Image of unidentified First Nations men preparing to portage a boat hauling supplies on the Athabasca River. Caption on photograph reads, "The photo shows the H.B. Co's. fur boats landing at the foot of the rapid preparatory to making the portage, 265 north of Edmonton."

Mathers, C. W.

A Moose and Teepee

Image of a moose standing next to a tipi. The caption on the photograph reads, "The moose is not much used being too difficult to train. Dogs are used now exclusively instead."

Mathers, C. W.

Cathedral Peak, Alt. 10,454 ft.

Caption reads, "Cathedral Peak. Altitude 10, 454 feet. A beautiful outstanding peak, seen from many points. This view was taken from Lake Ohara. Its is also seen to advantage from the motor road to Yoho Valley, also from the train and motor road on Field Hill."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Bow Lake

View of Bow Lake and the mountains which surround it. A tipi can be seen in the foreground with a man standing outside of it. Caption reads, "Bow Lake. Near the continental divide, twenty-five miles north west of Lake Louise, is one of the Gems of the Rockies. Is passed by the traveller en route to Jasper. The waters from the great Gordon glacier flow into the lake, which is the actual source of the Bow River."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Mount Columbia

Caption reads, " Mt. Columbia. Altitude, 12,000 feet. On the continental divide, 80 miles north of Lake Louise. Waters from the great Columbia Ice Field, 200 square miles of ice, flow into three oceans, the Artic, Pacific, and Atlantic."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Lakes in the Clouds

Caption reads, " Lakes in the Clouds. On the right, Lake Agnes, in the centre, Mirror Lake, on the left, Lake Louise. Behind, the snow capped heights of Victoria and Lefroy."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

The Three Sisters

Caption reads, "Three Sisters. One of the most striking and best known groups of mountains visible from the Canadian Pacific Railway. These rocky peaks attain to a height of approximately ninety seven hundred feet above sea level."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Falls, Johnson Canyon

Caption reads, "Johnson Canyon. A very attractive beauty sport on the Banff-Lake Louise Highway. At the upper end of the canyon this pretty waterfall sparkles in the sunshine and sings most soothingly."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Marble Canyon, Banff, Windermere Road

Caption reads, "Marble Canyon. Through an abysmal right in the rocks pour the waters of a rushing glacial stream winding, twisting, worming a way to the open valley below. This canyon, thirty-five miles west of Banff, is singularly east of access."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Mt. Lefroy and Lake Louise

Caption reads, "Mount Lefroy. Has an altitude over elven thousand feet. Between it and Mount Victoria (seen through the tree tops) is the noted 'Death Trap,' a narrow defile in Abbot Pass where avalanches thunder at frequent intervals."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

Mt. Aissiniboine, Alt. 11,800 ft.

View of Mount Aissiniboine. A tipi can be seen in the foreground of the photo. Caption reads, "Mount Assiniboine. This is undoubtedly the most imposing mountain in the Canadian Rockies. It is distant some fifty miles south west of the two Banff. At its base lies a lake of marvellous blue; upon its shoulder are draped glaciers and snowfields of incredible death; its summit is elevated high into the clean cold upper air, far above the sea of peaks by which it is surrounded."

Harmon, Byron, 1876-1934

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