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Cutting ice on Alta Lake

Sewall Tapley and Alex Philip cutting ice on Alta Lake. Inscription on verso: "about 1917 / Alex + Dad cutting ice / Alta Lake - a chore for every winter until Hydro came in"

Diving Float at Alta Lake

This photograph of Alta Lake, looking North from Rainbow Lodge was taken in the Summer. In the center of the image, a diving float is clearly visible.

Dryazell

View of Dryazell, the Harrop's cottage, across Alta Lake.

Duckhunting

Woman with ducks and a camouflaged boat at Alta Lake.

First aircraft to land on Alta Lake

Photograph of the first aircraft to land on Alta Lake. The plane is an HS2L flying boat, G-CYDX. It was from the Canadian Air Force, Jericho Beach Station, Vancouver, B.C. and flown by Earl Leslie MacLeod.

First Snow on the Peaks from Alta Lake

Four photographs stored together, made from two negatives (two prints from each negative). They are only slight variations on the same image of snow on the mountain peaks as seen from Alta Lake, with the railway tracks in the foreground. On the reverse of one of the prints is the following annotation: "First snow on the peaks late Sept- 1978 Alta Lake".

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