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Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of papers, photographs and sound recordings of Peter and Catharine Whyte and the papers and photographs of their respective families. Consists of three sous-fonds: V683, S37 and M36. M36 and S37 consists of three series. Series I: Peter and Catharine Whyte, Series II: Robb and Morse …
- Date Range
- 1856-1980
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Drawing
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Album
- Ambrotype
- Cased photograph
- Daguerreotype
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Tintype
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Plan
- Poster
- Private record
- Published record
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Sous-Fonds
- TBD
- Accession Number
- 3069 and various
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683
- GMD
- Drawing
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Album
- Ambrotype
- Cased photograph
- Daguerreotype
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Tintype
- Transparency
- Sound recording
- Cassette
- Reel to reel
- Textual record
- Plan
- Poster
- Private record
- Published record
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the Whyte family fonds
- Date Range
- 1856-1980
- Physical Description
- 25 m of textual records. -- ca.46,000 photographs : prints, albums, postcards, cased photographs, transparencies, negatives. -- 178 sound recordings : audio tape reels, audio tape cassettes. -- 6 motion pictures (and film strips)
- History / Biographical
- Peter and Catharine Whyte were artists, photographers, outdoor enthusiasts, travelers, philanthropists and cultural workers at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Peter Whyte, 1905-1966, was born at Banff in 1905 to pioneer merchant Dave White and Annie (Curren) White. He was an accomplished skier and ski jumper and one of the region's first native-born painters with an intimate knowledge of the mountains and was an active photographer from ca.1920 until the 1950s. Peter Whyte studied art at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1923-1924, and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, 1925, where he met Catharine Robb. Catharine Robb Whyte, 1906-1979, was born in 1906 at Concord, Massachusetts and grew up amongst the wealth and creativity of the Robb and Morse families. She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston, 1925-1929.
- Following their marriage in 1930, the Whytes pursued a life of painting, photography, hiking, skiing and travelling. Their log home and studio in Banff became a focal point for their artist friends, Stoney Indians and local pioneers. Catharine shared Pete's involvement in skiing and hiking organizations and together they managed Skoki Lodge from 1932-1934. In following years, the Whytes travelled extensively. During the Second World War, Peter served in the reserve army, with the Royal Canadian Air Force as a photographer and, briefly, as an official war artist. Catharine continued to paint and maintain their home and, when possible, accompanied Pete to his military postings. In civilian life, Pete resumed his art career, explored new photographic techniques and sculpted.
- Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Whytes formulated plans for a foundation to preserve the art and history of the Canadian Rockies. Plans for a building to house an archives, public library and gallery were in preparation when Pete died in 1966. The Peter Whyte Foundation was named in his honour. Catharine immersed herself in the development of what is now the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, in the cultural community, painting, outdoor activity, travel and work with the Stoney First Nations. She became a more active photographer, recording her travels and outdoor pursuits. She served in an official capacity with numerous cultural and charitable organizations, was a patron to individuals studying art and music, and supported numerous causes relating to the Stoney First Nations. Catharine also supported causes related to multiculturalism, regional culture and recreation, and cancer research. Despite her modesty and often anonymous patronage of causes, Catharine was recognized with numerous awards and honours, including the Order of Canada in 1978. She died in Banff in 1979.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of papers, photographs and sound recordings of Peter and Catharine Whyte and the papers and photographs of their respective families. Consists of three sous-fonds: V683, S37 and M36. M36 and S37 consists of three series. Series I: Peter and Catharine Whyte, Series II: Robb and Morse families, Series III: White and Curren families. Within Series I, there are four Sub-series: Series: A. Catharine Robb Whyte papers; B. Peter Whyte papers; C. Peter and Catharine Whyte papers accessioned after 2017; D. Peter and Catharine Whyte sound recordings.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Peter
- Whyte, Catharine
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Communications
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- Some restriction/s on access
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline
- sous-fonds, series and file description for textual
- sub-series and group description for photographs
- item description, subject/proper name index, and summaries for sound recordings
- reference copies for sound recordings
- Creator
- Whyte, Peter
- Whyte, Catharine
- Category
- Arts
- Communications
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Across the continent : a summer's journey to the Rocky mountains, the Mormons and the Pacific States
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue473
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1865
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel
- Publisher
- Springfield (Mass.): Bowles
- Call Number
- F594 B6
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel
- Publisher
- Springfield (Mass.): Bowles
- Published Date
- 1865
- Call Number
- F594 B6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Across the country from Thonon to Trent : rambles and scrambles in Switzerland and the Tyrol
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1058
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1865
- Author
- Freshfield, Douglas William
- Publisher
- London : Spottiswoode
- Call Number
- DQ823 F74
- Author
- Freshfield, Douglas William
- Publisher
- London : Spottiswoode
- Published Date
- 1865
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 F74
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Adventures of James Capen Adams, mountaineers and grizzly bear hunter
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1335
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1861
- Author
- Hittell, Theodore Henry
- Publisher
- Boston : Crosby, Nichols, Lee
- Call Number
- F864 A3
- Author
- Hittell, Theodore Henry
- Publisher
- Boston : Crosby, Nichols, Lee
- Published Date
- 1861
- Subjects
- Sierra Nevada Mountains
- Call Number
- F864 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Adventures with my alpen-stock and carpet bag
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2435
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1864
- Author
- Smith, William
- Publisher
- London : Pitman
- Call Number
- DQ23 S615
- Author
- Smith, William
- Publisher
- London : Pitman
- Published Date
- 1864
- Call Number
- DQ23 S615
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue452
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1868
- Author
- Bonney, Thomas George
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell
- Call Number
- DQ823 B65
- Author
- Bonney, Thomas George
- Responsibility
- with illustrations by E. Whymper
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Deighton, Bell
- Published Date
- 1868
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 B65
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alps : or, sketches of life and nature in the mounains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue383
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1861
- Author
- Berlepsch, Hermann Alexander von
- Publisher
- London : Longman, Green
- Call Number
- DQ823 B47
- Responsibility
- tr. by the Rev. Leslie Stephen
- Publisher
- London : Longman, Green
- Published Date
- 1861
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ823 B47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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An expedition across the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia by the Yellowhead or Leather Pass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1787
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1865
- Author
- Milton, William Fitzwilliam, Viscount
- Publisher
- London : Petter & Galpin
- Call Number
- F1060.8 M5 Pam
- Publisher
- London : Petter & Galpin
- Published Date
- 1865
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- F1060.8 M5 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Annie McKenzie family portrait album
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album containing 27 photograph prints and 5 tintype photographs. Contents include black and white portraits of various unnamed individuals, as well as one photograph of a large group of children posing outside of a log building [possibly a schoolhouse].
- Date Range
- [ca. 1865 - 1870]
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / B2 / PD - 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Tintype
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / B : Georgina Luxton series
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / III / B2 : Personal papers and photographs
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / III / B2 / PD - 2
- Responsibility
- Photographs in album produced by Charles H. Wright, James Sinclair, Burgess Photography [Guelph], T. Smith Photographic Artist [Guelph], and other unnamed photographers.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1865 - 1870]
- Physical Description
- 1 album (32 photographs : b&w ; 12 x 8 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album containing 27 photograph prints and 5 tintype photographs. Contents include black and white portraits of various unnamed individuals, as well as one photograph of a large group of children posing outside of a log building [possibly a schoolhouse].
- Notes
- First page of album is annotated in black ink [see "Content Details"].
- Date range provided is estimate by Processing Archivist based on contents of album [active periods of photographers credited in album overlap between ca. 1867 - 1870; album is signed by "Annie McKenzie", who married and became "Annie McDougall" in 1871].
- Material Details
- Leather bound album
- Name Access
- McDougall, Annie
- McKenzie, Annie
- Subject Access
- Children
- Family and personal life
- Immigration and homesteading
- Land, settlement and immigration
- Log structures
- Settlement
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Ontario
- Access Restrictions
- Fragile contents, handle with care
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Pages have been interleaved with acid-free tissue paper
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- First page annotation: "Annie McKenzie [unintelligible] [unintelligible] Ont[ario]."
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Ascension dans les montagnes Rocheuses
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1679
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1867
- Author
- Marcou, Jules
- Publisher
- Paris : Martinet
- Call Number
- F802 R68 M3
- Author
- Marcou, Jules
- Publisher
- Paris : Martinet
- Published Date
- 1867
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- F802 R68 M3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Beyond the Mississippi : from the great river to the great ocean
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2131
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1869
- Author
- Richardson, Albert Deane
- Publisher
- Hartford : American
- Edition
- New ed
- Call Number
- F594 R52
- Author
- Richardson, Albert Deane
- Edition
- New ed
- Publisher
- Hartford : American
- Published Date
- 1869
- Call Number
- F594 R52
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A British railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6295
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1861
- Call Number
- 08.5 Il6 Pam oversize
- Published Date
- 1861
- Physical Description
- p.135-136
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Notes
- In Illustrated London News, vol.XXXVIII, no.1075
- Accession Number
- 15500
- Call Number
- 08.5 Il6 Pam oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Cairngorm mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue567
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1864
- Author
- Burton, John Hill
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Blackwood
- Call Number
- DA880 G7 B8
- Author
- Burton, John Hill
- Publisher
- Edinburgh : Blackwood
- Published Date
- 1864
- Subjects
- Scotland
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DA880 G7 B8
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Catharine Newbury Robb
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Case contains 1 b&w ambrotype. Ambrotype documents an young woman (possibly Catharine Newbury Robb) posed for a portrait.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1850 - ca. 1870]
- Reference Code
- V683 / IV / A / PT - 16
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Tintype
1 image
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- V683 / IV / A : Robb / Morse Family Personal Series
- Sous-Fonds
- V683
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V683 / IV / A / PT - 16
- GMD
- Photograph
- Tintype
- Date Range
- [ca. 1850 - ca. 1870]
- Physical Description
- Cased Photograph : 1 b&w ambrotype --
- Scope & Content
- Case contains 1 b&w ambrotype. Ambrotype documents an young woman (possibly Catharine Newbury Robb) posed for a portrait.
- Subject Access
- Portrait
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title as found on item
- Content Details
- Ambrotype in case. Case covered with black coated paper. Front and back covers feature architectural and vegetal design in relief. The inside cover features a design debossed in red velvet and an adhesive sticker that reads “Catharine Newbury Robb.” The Ambrotype is framed in a brass coloured, decorative metal mat.
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue432
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1860
- Author
- Boner, Charles
- Publisher
- London : Chapman & Hall
- Edition
- New ed
- Call Number
- SK299 B65
- Author
- Boner, Charles
- Edition
- New ed
- Publisher
- London : Chapman & Hall
- Published Date
- 1860
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- SK299 B65
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Colorado : its resources, parks and prospects as a new field for emigration
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue411
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1869
- Author
- Blackmore, William
- Publisher
- London : Low and Marston
- Call Number
- F782 C8 B3
- Author
- Blackmore, William
- Publisher
- London : Low and Marston
- Published Date
- 1869
- Call Number
- F782 C8 B3
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Columbia River exploration, 1866 : reports and journals relating to the government exploration of the country lying between the Shushwap and Okanagan Lakes and the Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3900
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1869
- Author
- British Columbia. Lands and Works Department
- Publisher
- Victoria : Government Printing Office
- Call Number
- 02.6 C72b
- Publisher
- Victoria : Government Printing Office
- Published Date
- 1869
- Physical Description
- 28p
- Subjects
- British Columbia
- Notes
- Includes journals of Walter Moberly
- Accession Number
- 478
- Call Number
- 02.6 C72b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The comprehensive family bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized version, with ... notes and reflections
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12407
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1860
- Publisher
- Glasgow : Blackie and Son
- Call Number
- 00 B47
- Responsibility
- a general introduction ... by David Davidson, L.L.D
- Publisher
- Glasgow : Blackie and Son
- Published Date
- 1860
- Physical Description
- xxi, 1475, 72, 64p. : ill., maps
- Notes
- Galletly family bible
- Accession Number
- 3118 MSS
- Call Number
- 00 B47
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1861
- Publisher
- London : British and Foreign Bible Society
- Call Number
- 07.2 B47
- Publisher
- London : British and Foreign Bible Society
- Published Date
- 1861
- Physical Description
- 855, 292p
- Notes
- Inscribed: This Bible was presented to Rev. Robert Terrill Rundle by the British & Foreign Bible Society, being the first copy printed in the Cree language
- Accession Number
- 2873
- Call Number
- 07.2 B47
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Doldenhorn and Weisse Freau
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2206
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1863
- Author
- Roth, Abraham
- Publisher
- Coblenz : Baedeker
- Call Number
- DQ841 D6 R6
- Author
- Roth, Abraham
- Publisher
- Coblenz : Baedeker
- Published Date
- 1863
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DQ841 D6 R6
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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