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Provides a view of Moraine Lake in Alberta from a low vantage near the water, facing the glacier on the opposite side.

Depicts Mt. Edith Cavell in Alberta, from across a lake. The photo is taken at the lake’s edge, and a wooden deck built next to the lake is visible on the right hand side.

Depicts Water Fowl Lake from the water’s edge, facing two large mountains on the opposite side.

A colourized photo of the Bohemian Maid Brewing Company Ltd. building in Edmonton, AB.

Depicts a man on a dogsled with a dog team, in front of a cabin in the woods.

Alfred Blyth (1901-1980) moved to Edmonton from Scotland around 1913 and began work as a darkroom technician in 1916. He opened his own photographic studio in 1928, which he operated until his retirement in 1970. For more information, please see the biographical entry in the Provincial Museum of Alberta's Alfred Blyth fonds (available online at https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR0607&dv=True&deptID=1 [accessed on 11 December 2018]).

Although the photographs are not accompanied by annotations, they appear to document the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Alberta in 1939. Images of the Royal Couple - often pictured with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie-King and other dignitaries - and crowd scenes predominate. Events at the Legislature, Calgary City Hall, the Banff Springs Hotel, as well as arrivals and departures from airports and railway depots are present.

A souvenir photobook published by the Royal Visit Pictorial Review, containing captioned B&W prints of 39 photographs taken by Alfred Blyth during the Alberta stops of the 1939 Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, to Canada.

Included photographs depict the King and Queen's arrival on the Royal Train, their attendance at various public ceremonies and events, large waiting crowds, royal automobiles and motorcades, and many other moments from the Royal Visit, such as the Queen accepting a bouquet of roses from a child, the King and Queen meeting with disabled veterans, the King and Queen visiting the Banff Springs Hotel in informal attire, etc.

B&W print of a jet of flame bursting out of the ground in a grassy field, surrounded by billowing smoke. Stamp on back of print says “Photograph by Alfred Blyth, A. R. P. S. Edmonton, Canada…”