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- Date
- 1920 – 1970
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1106 a-c
- Description
- Three yellow ceramic bowls.
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- Title
- Bowl
- Date
- 1920 – 1970
- Material
- ceramic
- Description
- Three yellow ceramic bowls.
- Subject
- households
- Phyllis Cain
- Credit
- Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1106 a-c
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- Date
- 1920 – 1970
- Material
- enamel
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1107
- Description
- Shallow yellow enamelware bowl with a flared red rim.
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- Title
- Bowl
- Date
- 1920 – 1970
- Material
- enamel
- Description
- Shallow yellow enamelware bowl with a flared red rim.
- Subject
- households
- Phyllis Cain
- Credit
- Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1107
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- Date
- 1938
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1113 a,b
- Description
- A simple black box camera with black, simulated textured leather. It also has an adhesive-taped, original box. The inverted aperture in the front has a black metal retention ring surrounding it. Below this “Agfa” is imprinted on the camera, surrounded by a diamond-shaped box. There is a black metal…
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- Title
- Box Camera
- Date
- 1938
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 6.5 cm
- Description
- A simple black box camera with black, simulated textured leather. It also has an adhesive-taped, original box. The inverted aperture in the front has a black metal retention ring surrounding it. Below this “Agfa” is imprinted on the camera, surrounded by a diamond-shaped box. There is a black metal rim which overlaps the edges on the front of the camera; on both sides there is a slight extension, .03 x.05 wide, 2.0cm from the top, with a hole in the metal. This fits over two small metal knobs on each side of the camera body. It appears that pushing the knobs in and pulling, would release the front part of the camera from the body. On the viewer’s left is the metal shutter release; a small metal lever that can be pulled down to release the shutter and expose the lens from inside the body. On the same side is the metal film winder, 3.0cm from the front and .50cm from the top; this is a flat piece of metal 2.0cm in diameter, with arrows indicating the direction to turn (clockwise arrows), a round raised metal tab, onto which is screwed a piece of metal (2.5cmx1.0cm wide in the middle) to wind the film. It can also be pulled out to release the metal film chamber. The metal is turned down on the side of each end so the fingers can grasp it for turning. A metal folding viewfinder is .50cm from the back and 2.7cm from top and bottom; a flat piece of metal 3.0cm sq., folded at the sides, is rivetted onto the body. Two flat metal pieces are attached at each end, one on a spring to fold down; this piece is 2.4x2.7cm wide with a window cut out .50x1.0cm wide. The other piece is 2.7cm sq. with a window of 1.5x2.4cm wide; the cutout has a piece of metal raised from the bottom of the window. The cutout is for perspective when you look through the viewfinder, vertically or horizontally. This piece of metal folds down to become the top, effectively making the viewfinder flat when not in use. There is a hinged door on the back of the camera and a cut-out metal latch on the door that connects to a small metal knob 1.0cm from the edge of the body. There is a red circle film window (1.0cm diagonally) which lets you read the frame number on the film. On the inside of the door are two rivets that connect the hinge. Above that and below the red circle, is a white painted circle with “USE AB” printed in black, overlapping a painted orange, blue, white, and yellow Agfa Plenachrome film box. The red viewfinder is 4.0cm from the base. A metal film chamber, with two metal rollers on each end for winding the film on, fits inside the camera. It can be released by pulling out the film winder. The canister is 7.0x5.0 wide, is open at one end, hollow in the centre, sloping upwards with a circular hole at the other end to let light in. There are two sprockets sitting on two cutouts on top of the canister and two on the bottom, onto which the film is winded. There are two rivets attaching two Y-shaped metal pieces, on either end that guide and let the film move and roll. The top of the camera has two metal knobs 1.5cm crosswise from each end, where a leather strap with a hole on either end, .07cm from the edge, fits in to make a diagonal strap/handle for carrying. The strap is imprinted with “A-8 CADET”. There is a small metal pull-up tab, 1.0cm from the edge of the front of the camera, that lets you time the shutter speed.
- Subject
- households
- photography
- hobbies
- Bob Louden
- Credit
- Gift of Bob Louden, Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1113 a,b
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1019
- Description
- Long metal rod with looped handle at one end, brand “M-” at the other end.
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- Title
- Branding Iron
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 79.0 cm
- Description
- Long metal rod with looped handle at one end, brand “M-” at the other end.
- Subject
- packers and guides
- Ike Mills
- Credit
- Gift of Tom Boon, Sidney, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 104.03.1019
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Bronze Sculpture
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact107.02.1037
- Date
- 1998 – 2001
- Material
- metal, bronze; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1037
- Description
- Commemorative bronze sculpture of man on horse by Malcolm MacKenzie on wooden base. Signed by artist and numbered #26 of 49. Plaque on front reads: “T.R.C.R. 75 years, 1923-1998”.
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- Title
- Bronze Sculpture
- Date
- 1998 – 2001
- Material
- metal, bronze; wood
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 9.0 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- Commemorative bronze sculpture of man on horse by Malcolm MacKenzie on wooden base. Signed by artist and numbered #26 of 49. Plaque on front reads: “T.R.C.R. 75 years, 1923-1998”.
- Credit
- Gift of Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies, Calgary, 2002
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1037
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.1014 a,b
- Description
- Broom holder in two parts, a wall bracket and a clamp to hold the broom. The bracket is marked “BANFF METETERIA ED EVANS PROP. Finest Quality of Fresh and Cured Meats Fresh and Cured Fish in Season D------ Name C---- Meats PHONE 241 BANFF ALTA.”
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- Title
- Broom Holder
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal
- Description
- Broom holder in two parts, a wall bracket and a clamp to hold the broom. The bracket is marked “BANFF METETERIA ED EVANS PROP. Finest Quality of Fresh and Cured Meats Fresh and Cured Fish in Season D------ Name C---- Meats PHONE 241 BANFF ALTA.”
- Subject
- households
- advertising
- Banff Meteteria
- Credit
- Gift of Steve T. Hincks, Banff, 1989
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.1014 a,b
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Brownie Camera
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.41.0190
- Date
- 1931 – 1931
- Material
- cardboard; metal; leather; glass;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0190
- Description
- Black hard leather-sided No. 2 Brownie camera in its original packaging. Camera has a leather handle on the top, along with one viewfinder - a second viewfinder is on the adjacent side, which also as a round metal crank. The back panel of the camera can be removed in order to access the film compar…
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- Title
- Brownie Camera
- Date
- 1931 – 1931
- Material
- cardboard; metal; leather; glass;
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 8.8 x 14.0 cm
- Description
- Black hard leather-sided No. 2 Brownie camera in its original packaging. Camera has a leather handle on the top, along with one viewfinder - a second viewfinder is on the adjacent side, which also as a round metal crank. The back panel of the camera can be removed in order to access the film compartment. The cardboard box folds together and is not held with adhesives - except where the lip of the lid fit against the front panel.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0190
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- Date
- 1924 – 1941
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.21.1006
- Description
- Two-handled saw with wooden handles and crossbars and a metal blade and metal tension rod with tightener. The tension rod is stamped “PAT. MAY 20 - 1924.”
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- Title
- Bucksaw
- Date
- 1924 – 1941
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 63.8 x 2.7 x 87.5 cm
- Description
- Two-handled saw with wooden handles and crossbars and a metal blade and metal tension rod with tightener. The tension rod is stamped “PAT. MAY 20 - 1924.”
- Credit
- Gift of Robert N. Smith, Canmore, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 104.21.1006
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- Date
- 1881
- Material
- grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;
- Catalogue Number
- 112.02.1005
- Description
- A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOU…
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- Title
- Buffalo Dung
- Date
- 1881
- Material
- grass; wood; paper; glass; metal;
- Dimensions
- 24.0 (frame 34.0) x 20.0 (frame 29.0) cm
- Description
- A framed (in a gold-coloured shadow box with a screwed-on wooden back) and glassed-in mound of bison dung surrounded by white tissue paper. There is a screwed-in hook at the top of the box for hanging. Au verso written in pen “THIS 100% PURE BUFFALO CHIP WAS CREATED ON THE PLAINS OF ALBERTA - ABOUT 30 MILES S-E OF RED DEER - ON OR ABOUT THE 24TH DAY OF JULY 1881 - PRESERVED BY THE KINDNESS OF THE ABERHART GOVERNMENT”. Signed in pencil in script “Pat Lawrence P-L Ranches Red Deer”. On viewer’s left there is a white rectangular paper sticker with a red border, above this printed in pen “CERTIFIED GENUINE” and written on the paper, extending onto the wood, a signature in pen ESMeaueug?? underlined.
- Subject
- plants
- feces
- buffalo
- Nick Morant
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 112.02.1005
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1014 a-c
- Description
- Three hand-carved busts of light polished wood on dark brown turned bases.a) Man with cowboy hat. Bright pink markings on the bottom are illegible.b) Woman with long braids wrapped around her head. Bright pink markings on the bottom are barely legible “Hand carved by Augustine...”c) Young woman wi…
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- Title
- Bust
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood
- Description
- Three hand-carved busts of light polished wood on dark brown turned bases.a) Man with cowboy hat. Bright pink markings on the bottom are illegible.b) Woman with long braids wrapped around her head. Bright pink markings on the bottom are barely legible “Hand carved by Augustine...”c) Young woman with long hair and a demure smile. The bottom of this bust is marked “Hand Carved by Augustin Oberdmeryani” in bright pink.
- Subject
- crafts
- woodworking
- carving
- art
- artists
- Augustin Oberdmeryani
- Jimmy Simpson
- Billie Simpson
- Mary Simpson
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1014 a-c
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- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1036
- Description
- Long metal knife with a wooden handle that is rivetted on to the steel. The wood is incised “W.N. Cain.”
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- Title
- Butcher Knife
- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- metal; wood
- Description
- Long metal knife with a wooden handle that is rivetted on to the steel. The wood is incised “W.N. Cain.”
- Subject
- households
- Phyllis Cain
- W.N. Cain
- Credit
- Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 104.19.1036
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- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- glass;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1301
- Description
- Two-part glass butter dish with a shallow base and deeper lid, both pieces have decorative beveling throughout the sides and on the top. Engraved into the base is “BOTTOM,” legible when the lid is removed - the base also has small handles that stick out from the short sides.
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- Title
- Butter Dish
- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- glass;
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 16.7 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Two-part glass butter dish with a shallow base and deeper lid, both pieces have decorative beveling throughout the sides and on the top. Engraved into the base is “BOTTOM,” legible when the lid is removed - the base also has small handles that stick out from the short sides.
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1301
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Button Collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.07.1081
- Date
- 1920 – 1980
- Material
- plastic; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1081
- Description
- A collection of assorted buttons along with some cuff links, collar pins and hair pins.
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- Title
- Button Collection
- Date
- 1920 – 1980
- Material
- plastic; metal
- Description
- A collection of assorted buttons along with some cuff links, collar pins and hair pins.
- Credit
- Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.1081
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal; glass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1064
- Description
- One Jhagee Exakta SLR 35mm with a leather case. This metal camera is built for a left-handed user.
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- Title
- Camera
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal; glass; skin
- Description
- One Jhagee Exakta SLR 35mm with a leather case. This metal camera is built for a left-handed user.
- Subject
- Byron Harmon
- photography
- Credit
- Gift of Jim Davies, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1064
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- Date
- 1885 – 1890
- Material
- wood; metal; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1010 a,b
- Description
- “Premo D” folding camera (4”x5” format) with a leather covered wooden frame. The camera has a leather handle centred on the top and held in place with brass keepers. The hinged front of the camera opens to lie flat and has a brass track (3.2 cm wide) running down the centre. The red leather bell…
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- Title
- Camera
- Date
- 1885 – 1890
- Material
- wood; metal; skin
- Dimensions
- 12.0 x 14.5 x 17.5 cm
- Description
- “Premo D” folding camera (4”x5” format) with a leather covered wooden frame. The camera has a leather handle centred on the top and held in place with brass keepers. The hinged front of the camera opens to lie flat and has a brass track (3.2 cm wide) running down the centre. The red leather bellows extend along the track and end with a wooden frame that holds a lens (missing) and a viewfinder. The camera also has hinged doors on the right side and on the back.b) Film plate holder loaded in the camera’s side chamber.
- Subject
- households
- photography
- hobbies
- Credit
- Gift of Unknown, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1010 a,b
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- Date
- 1889 – 1945
- Material
- metal; glass; leather;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0181
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout…
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- Title
- Camera
- Date
- 1889 – 1945
- Material
- metal; glass; leather;
- Dimensions
- 19.7 x 20.0 x 14.4 cm
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout allow different panels in the camera to open - three holes along the bottom [one on the body of the camera and two on the fold-down lens plate] allow the camera to be mounted on a tripod.
- Subject
- Crosby family
- Abegweit
- cameras
- photography;
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0181
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- Date
- c. 1930
- Material
- paper; plastic;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0246
- Description
- A small black plastic camera, Univex Model A, in its original box with information sheet. The box is bright orange with black text and stripes along the box. Front of the box has an illustration of the camera in the top middle, with text surrounding that reads “UNIVEX PICTURES MAKE” “BEAUTIFUL ENLA…
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- Title
- Camera
- Date
- c. 1930
- Material
- paper; plastic;
- Dimensions
- 6.6 x 9.1 x 5.0 cm
- Description
- A small black plastic camera, Univex Model A, in its original box with information sheet. The box is bright orange with black text and stripes along the box. Front of the box has an illustration of the camera in the top middle, with text surrounding that reads “UNIVEX PICTURES MAKE” “BEAUTIFUL ENLARGEMENTS”. Underneath the illustration in cursive text “Univex” and in regular text “A JEWEL OF A CAMERA” and in the bottom black stripe, “UNIVERSAL CAMERA CORPORATION” “MADE IN U.S.A.” “NEW YORK, N.Y.”. This is the same on the opposite side. Along the shorter side is more text “MODEL A” “Univex” “CAMERA”, a stamp that reads “UNIVERSAL CAMERA COMPANY HERMANT BLOG. TORONTO, — CANADA”, and “MADE IN U.S.A.” The top and bottom of the box just read “MODEL A” “Univex” “CAMERA”. Inside the box is a small information sheet with pricing of rolls for the camera, printing and developing. The camera is small with a long square lens, a metal wire range finder that lines up with the smaller range finder attached to the side of the camera. The shutter is one the side of the lens, fairly small. There is a metal knob to wind the film. The back of the camera features raised text, “Univex” “USE UNIVEX No 00 FILM ROLLS ONLY” in a square, a red circle with “MADE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”, “MODEL A CAMERA U.S. PAT. DES. 89.88 OTHER U.S. AND FOR’G’N PATSPOG” in a square, and “UNIVERSAL CAMERA CORPORATION NEW YORK, N.Y., U.S.A.”. The inside of the camera has a spot for film.
- Credit
- Gift of Don Harmon, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0246
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Camera Accessories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.41.0185%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1923 – 1940
- Material
- metal; glass; fabric;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0185 a,b
- Description
- Silver metal Kodak lens with mounting plate that includes a fold-up view finder [possibly for a Ciné-Kodak motion picture camera] with black velvet-lined lens caps and a black fabric-wrapped extension trigger for an unknown camera.
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- Title
- Camera Accessories
- Date
- 1923 – 1940
- Material
- metal; glass; fabric;
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 4.1 x 9.6 cm
- Description
- Silver metal Kodak lens with mounting plate that includes a fold-up view finder [possibly for a Ciné-Kodak motion picture camera] with black velvet-lined lens caps and a black fabric-wrapped extension trigger for an unknown camera.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0185 a,b
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- Date
- 1920 – 1999
- Material
- leather; fabric; metal; wood; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0087
- Description
- Burgundy leather hard-sided travel case for Leica camera accessories. The case looks like a standard briefcase, with leather caps on the corners and two locking clasps, one on either side of the handle, which is still wrapped in paper. Throughout the exterior are black and silver metal studs either…
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- Title
- Camera Case
- Date
- 1920 – 1999
- Material
- leather; fabric; metal; wood; paper
- Dimensions
- 10.6 x 26.2 x 41.5 cm
- Description
- Burgundy leather hard-sided travel case for Leica camera accessories. The case looks like a standard briefcase, with leather caps on the corners and two locking clasps, one on either side of the handle, which is still wrapped in paper. Throughout the exterior are black and silver metal studs either holding the corner protectors in place or the interior dividing compartments. The interior of the lid is lined with red and white plaid paper and the main body of the case is lined with thin pale wood. Throughout the interior are wooden pieces meant to separate accessories, some of the pieces are covered with burgundy velvet. There is a small metal ring with two keys for the latches’ locks hanging from the handle.
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0087
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- Date
- 1920 – 1999
- Material
- leather; metal; fabric; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0088
- Description
- A travel case made from some hard light-weight black material (possibly metal) with a hinged lid that closes with metal latches on either side of a latched lock. Metal brackets on all of the corners and reinforcing along all edges - wooden runners along the bottom of the case horizontally. There is…
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- Title
- Camera Case
- Date
- 1920 – 1999
- Material
- leather; metal; fabric; paper
- Dimensions
- 36.2 x 34.4 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- A travel case made from some hard light-weight black material (possibly metal) with a hinged lid that closes with metal latches on either side of a latched lock. Metal brackets on all of the corners and reinforcing along all edges - wooden runners along the bottom of the case horizontally. There is a leather strap that clips into loops on the short sides of the box as well as a leather travel tag. Attached to the leather strap is a yellow Canadian Pacific Railway travel tag with a piece of string. Throughout the exterior are various travel labels, mostly torn. On the lid is a white rectangular “Canadian Pacific” label that reads “Nicholas Morant, Special Photographer Canadian Pacific Ltd. care CP Transport” in typed text and “Banff Alta” written in black ink above a scratched out typed “Victoria, B.C.” Also on the lid is a piece of masking tape with “LEICA & FILM & ACCESSORIES” written in blue ink possibly by Nick Morant. The interior is lined with beige fabric and both the main body and the interior of the lid are divided into two equal compartments. In one of the body compartments are wooden slats that most likely sit on supports inside each part to create additional compartments at the bottom of the case, but they are not in place. The compartments in the lid are held closed with small pieces of leather that snap onto the front panels which hinge down on strips of brown fabric tape. Inside the case and lid compartments are a Leica camera and various accessories,
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0088
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