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The abode of snow : observations on a tour from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1876

Author: Wilson, Andrew

Publisher: Edinburgh & London : Blackwood

Edition: 2d ed

Call Number: DS485 H6 W54

Author: Wilson, Andrew

Edition: 2d ed

Publisher: Edinburgh & London : Blackwood

Published Date: 1876

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: DS485 H6 W54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Account of an embassy to the courts of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1800

Author: Turner, Samuel

Publisher: London : Bulmer

Call Number: DS785 T87 Oversize F

Author: Turner, Samuel

Publisher: London : Bulmer

Published Date: 1800

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: DS785 T87 Oversize F

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Across America : or, the great west and the Pacific coast

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1874

Author: Rusling, James

Publisher: New York : Sheldon

Call Number: F594 R88

Author: Rusling, James

Publisher: New York : Sheldon

Published Date: 1874

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: F594 R88

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Adventures on the Columbia River

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1831

Author: Cox, Ross

Publisher: London : Colburn & Bentley

Call Number: F880 C69 1831 II

Author: Cox, Ross

Publisher: London : Colburn & Bentley

Published Date: 1831

Physical Description: 400 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Volume 2 of 2

Subjects: Rocky Mountains, Canada

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: F880 C69 1831 II

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Adventures on the Columbia River

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1831

Author: Cox, Ross

Publisher: London : Colburn & Bentley

Call Number: F880 C69 1831 I

Author: Cox, Ross

Publisher: London : Colburn & Bentley

Published Date: 1831

Physical Description: 368 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Volume 1 of 2

Subjects: Rocky Mountains, Canada

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: F880 C69 1831 I

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine ascents and adventures : or, rock and snow sketches

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1878

Author: Wilson, Henry Schutz

Publisher: London : Low [et al.]

Call Number: DQ825 W54

Author: Wilson, Henry Schutz

Publisher: London : Low [et al.]

Published Date: 1878

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: DQ825 W54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The amateur trapper and trap-maker's guide : a complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of trapping, snaring, and netting, containing plain directions for constructing the most approved traps ... with concise but comprehensive instructions for preserving and stuffing specimens ...

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1875?

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Published Date: 1875?

Physical Description: 134 p. : ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Trapping; Wildlife; Guidebook

Abstract: Guide to trapping fur-bearing and animals including how to make traps and taxidermy and other preservation methods.

Notes: Cover missing

Accession Number: 2926

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Collection: Archives Library

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An approximate classification of the lands

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1878

Call Number: C12-1.22

Published Date: 1878

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: North West Territory

Notes: Photostatic copy from Public Archives; two sections

Accession Number: 675

Call Number: C12-1.22

Collection: Archives Library

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And Scabbard Dirk

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Date: 1875 – 1930

Material: metal; wood; fibre

Catalogue Number: 104.05.0057 a,b

Description: A very thin knife with ebony handle like rifle butt and wooden scabbard wrapped with bands of black cord. (a) dirk, short, narrow, pointed steel blade with reverse curve to sharp shoulder on under side of hilt. Small carved ebony handle shaped like a rifle butt, with carved band of scallops and d…

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Title: And Scabbard Dirk

Date: 1875 – 1930

Material: metal; wood; fibre

Dimensions: 2.1 x 1.0 x 15.0 cm

Description: A very thin knife with ebony handle like rifle butt and wooden scabbard wrapped with bands of black cord. (a) dirk, short, narrow, pointed steel blade with reverse curve to sharp shoulder on under side of hilt. Small carved ebony handle shaped like a rifle butt, with carved band of scallops and diamond shapes around middle. Two decorative notches carved across butt of handle. Note: handle checked along length. (b) scabbard, small, simple and straight, carved of two pieces of wood with triangular opening at mouth. Top carved to curve downward on one side to accommodate shoulder of blade. Girded with four double bands of finely braided cord, evenly spaced along length, and a fifth triple band at top beneath shoulder. Note: top fibre hands loose and slide up and down.

Subject: warfare; fighting; Japanese; Edward S. Morse

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.05.0057 a,b

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Aneroid Barometer

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Date: 1870 – 1910

Material: glass; metal

Catalogue Number: 104.30.0008

Description: Wall type aneroid barometer in a brass casing with three brackets for screw mounting, its range is 710 to 790 millimeters. It’s manufactured for the Phillipine Islands and all the surface information is in Spanish. The longer of the two brass needles under the glass is the pressure indicatior and …

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Title: Aneroid Barometer

Date: 1870 – 1910

Material: glass; metal

Dimensions: 5.8 x 19.1 cm

Description: Wall type aneroid barometer in a brass casing with three brackets for screw mounting, its range is 710 to 790 millimeters. It’s manufactured for the Phillipine Islands and all the surface information is in Spanish. The longer of the two brass needles under the glass is the pressure indicatior and the shorter of the needles is the setting which can be varied manually for purposes of comparison.

Subject: households; industry; weather; Russell Robb

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.30.0008

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Annual report of the Department of the Interior

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1875-1936

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Call Number: 02.4 C16i

Author: Canada. Department of the Interior

Published Date: 1875-1936

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Sessional papers

Subjects: Banff (townsite); Businesses; Government; Hot springs; Indians; Mining; National parks; Roads; Surveys; Tourism; Utilities

Notes: Holdings: 1875-1936 [some photocopies; some Part V or Part III only]. Photocopies only for: 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1903/04, 1905/06, 1906/07, 1908 Dept of Interior & Part III only, 1911/12, 1914/15, 1916/17, 1918/19;; Fiscal year Jan-Dec until 1899 - changed with 6 month gap between 1899 (dated Feb 28, 1900) and 1901 (June 1900-Jun30, 1901) [re: change of fiscal year?]; fiscal year change again 1906/07 (April to Mar 31)[ This second change caused there to be an annual report for 1905 of which we have original]; Also referred to as "The Department of the Interior Report"

Accession Number: 334; 1000; 12548; 2416; 2691; 7830

Call Number: 02.4 C16i

Collection: Archives Library

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Annual report on the progress of the topographical survey of the Adirondack region of New York

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1873-79

Author: New York (State). Adirondack Survey

Publisher: Albany : Weed, Parsons

Call Number: F127 A2 N49

Author: New York (State). Adirondack Survey

Responsibility: by Verplanck Colvin

Publisher: Albany : Weed, Parsons

Published Date: 1873-79

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: F127 A2 N49

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Apron

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Date: 1800 – 1880

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1101

Description: Embroidered black silk, gathered at the top onto band, folded under, made of three panels of silk, centre panel 42.0 wideand side panels 20.0 with 6.0 of that turned to back, embroidery done with single thread in shades of green, brown and pale yellow, blue and melon, flowers and leaves in two pan…

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Title: Apron

Date: 1800 – 1880

Material: fibre

Dimensions: 65.0 x 74.0 cm

Description: Embroidered black silk, gathered at the top onto band, folded under, made of three panels of silk, centre panel 42.0 wideand side panels 20.0 with 6.0 of that turned to back, embroidery done with single thread in shades of green, brown and pale yellow, blue and melon, flowers and leaves in two panels downand wider panel across

Subject: households; clothing; Quaker; Mary Schaffer Warren; Serena Potts

Credit: Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986

Catalogue Number: 103.05.1101

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Area of the Upper Missouri and Rocky Mts.

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1801

Call Number: C12-1.20

Published Date: 1801

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: Indian Map

Notes: Photostatic copy from Public Archives; two sections

Accession Number: 675

Call Number: C12-1.20

Collection: Archives Library

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Articles of a treaty

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1878

Call Number: 07.2 Ar7 Pam

Published Date: 1878

Physical Description: p.xliv-li

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Treaty Number Seven

Notes: From Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Year Ended 30th June 1877

Call Number: 07.2 Ar7 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Artificial Fruit

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Date: 1870 – 1920

Material: glass

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0032

Description: A handblown clear glass fruit (apple/tomato?) with a crackled surface and a single leaf hanging from the stem. The glass has a gold sheen.

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Title: Artificial Fruit

Date: 1870 – 1920

Material: glass

Dimensions: 5.5 cm

Description: A handblown clear glass fruit (apple/tomato?) with a crackled surface and a single leaf hanging from the stem. The glass has a gold sheen.