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- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- glass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3001
- Description
- Fully beaded belt on harness leather, edged with pink beads. Light blue background with three designs of four red diamonds with red and blue inside. Buckskin thongs on ends.
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- Title
- Beaded Belt
- Date
- 1890 – 1910
- Material
- glass; skin
- Dimensions
- 6.5 x 92.0 cm
- Description
- Fully beaded belt on harness leather, edged with pink beads. Light blue background with three designs of four red diamonds with red and blue inside. Buckskin thongs on ends.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.07.3001
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- Date
- 1875 – 1890
- Material
- skin, deer; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0011
- Description
- A man's deerskin shirt with fringe at the ends of the sleeves. The shirt has strips of beadwork at the shoulders that extend down both the front and back of the garment with a fringe of ermine tails along the length of the outside edge. The background of the beadwork is white with an x-shaped pa…
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- Title
- Beaded Shirt
- Date
- 1875 – 1890
- Material
- skin, deer; skin, ermine; hair, sheep; glass
- Dimensions
- 53.0 (shoulder) x 81.0 cm
- Description
- A man's deerskin shirt with fringe at the ends of the sleeves. The shirt has strips of beadwork at the shoulders that extend down both the front and back of the garment with a fringe of ermine tails along the length of the outside edge. The background of the beadwork is white with an x-shaped pattern of blue, yellow and red. There is a medallion of beadwork in the centre of both the front and back of the shirt, with an ermine tail hanging from the centre of each medallion.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.05.0011
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- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; wood;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0014
- Description
- Warning: This item contains asbestos - do not handle. Small metal clothes iron made up of three parts: a base plate with ventilation holes, a solid metal iron that would be heated, and a metal hood with a wooden handle and a spring-loaded lever that latches on to the solid iron. The iron has “ASBES…
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- Title
- Clothes Iron
- Date
- 1890 – 1920
- Material
- metal; wood;
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 4.4 x 9.7 cm
- Description
- Warning: This item contains asbestos - do not handle. Small metal clothes iron made up of three parts: a base plate with ventilation holes, a solid metal iron that would be heated, and a metal hood with a wooden handle and a spring-loaded lever that latches on to the solid iron. The iron has “ASBESTOS SAD IRON” molded throughout the top. Asbestos Sad Irons were produced from the late 1800s until electric steam irons gained popularity. The sold metal iron would be heated over a fire or stove and then picked up by placing the hood over it - the hood was lined with asbestos and also provided a small air pocket between the hot metal and the handle, making it slightly cooler and easier to handle.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0014
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Coin & Currency Collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact109.03.0005
- Date
- 1894 – 1930
- Material
- metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 109.03.0005
- Description
- A collection of 34 foreign coins and 6 bills from around the world: coins:3 Canadian one cent (.2 x 2.6) - copper; 1899 - Queen Victoria, 1910 - Edward VII, 1916 - George V. U.S. one cent (.2 x 2.0) - copper; Lincoln head penny; 1910, 3a 1920, 1925, 2a 1928. U.S. ten cent (.1 x 1.9) - silver; Liber…
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- Title
- Coin & Currency Collection
- Date
- 1894 – 1930
- Material
- metal; paper
- Description
- A collection of 34 foreign coins and 6 bills from around the world: coins:3 Canadian one cent (.2 x 2.6) - copper; 1899 - Queen Victoria, 1910 - Edward VII, 1916 - George V. U.S. one cent (.2 x 2.0) - copper; Lincoln head penny; 1910, 3a 1920, 1925, 2a 1928. U.S. ten cent (.1 x 1.9) - silver; Liberty head dime; 1918. 1 Italian five centisimi (.2 x 2.0) - copper; Vittorio Emmanuele III; 1928. 6 Italian ten centisimi (.2 x 2.3) - copper; Vittorio Emanuele III: 2a 1921, 1923, 1924, 1929,1930. 4 Philipine one centavo (.2 x 2.5) - copper; U.S. shield and eagle; 2a 1926 2a 1928. 1 Settlement one cent (.2 x 2.8) - copper; Queen Victoria; 1885 (Note: very worn); 1 Indian one rupee (.2 x 3.2) - silver; Edward VII; 1906. 2 Ceylon ten cents (.1 x 1.6) - silver; 1894 - Queen Victoria (Note: very worn, 1920 - George V. Egyptian ten milliemes (.2 x 2.5) - silver; Arabic script with centre hole; 1917. 4 Japanese coins - (.2 x 2.4) - copper; three-blossomed floral symbol. Japanese coin (.2 x 2.3) - silver; imperial chrysanthemum and centre hole (.1 x 1.9) - silver, as above, but smaller. Chinese (?) coin (.1 x 1.9) - silver; bald, mustached man in uniform. Paper currency: 1 Canadian one dollar bill (17.8 x 8.5) - green both sides; George V portrait; 1923; serial number, "S-618038". 2 Ceylon one rupee bills (11.2 x 6.4) - green and pink one side, blue other; 1929; serial numbers, 41228, and 86550. 2 Chinese twenty cents bills (10.2 x 5.5) - brown one side, blue other; 1925; serial numbers C291825, and D192280. 1 Chinese ten cents bill (9.5 x 5.3) - blue one side, brown other; 1925; serial number E062033. 34 coins, 6 bills
- Subject
- Whyte home
- collectables
- travel
- souvenir
- keepsake
- memories
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.03.0005
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- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- cardboard;
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0293 a-c
- Description
- Three empty boxes for one Transparent Film Cartridge meant to be used in the Kodak No. 2 Bullet Camera - each cartridge could take twelve 3 1/2 inch exposures. Each box has a black and white paper label adhered across the top of the lid with the product and manufacturer details printed throughout -…
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- Title
- Film Box
- Date
- 1890 – 1900
- Material
- cardboard;
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 4.0 x 10.3 cm
- Description
- Three empty boxes for one Transparent Film Cartridge meant to be used in the Kodak No. 2 Bullet Camera - each cartridge could take twelve 3 1/2 inch exposures. Each box has a black and white paper label adhered across the top of the lid with the product and manufacturer details printed throughout - on the bottom is a white and red paper label with a warning to develop the film before May 1st, 1900. All three boxes have various kinds of writing throughout the exteriors - two have notes written on one long side in pencil by Russell Robb [most likely Catharine’s father].
- Subject
- photography
- photographic developing
- film
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.0293 a-c
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Gramophone Needles
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.03.0036
- Date
- 1898 – 1924
- Material
- tin; metal; paper;
- Catalogue Number
- 105.03.0036
- Description
- Small red and gold tin box with a hinged lid containing spare gramophone needles, some of which are held by a small piece of cardboard. Printed on the red lid in gold is a dog looking into the bell of a gramophone with “FULL TONE NEEDLES 300” is printed above and “HIS MASTERS VOICE” below. Manufact…
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- Title
- Gramophone Needles
- Date
- 1898 – 1924
- Material
- tin; metal; paper;
- Dimensions
- 1.2 x 4.7 x 3.5 cm
- Description
- Small red and gold tin box with a hinged lid containing spare gramophone needles, some of which are held by a small piece of cardboard. Printed on the red lid in gold is a dog looking into the bell of a gramophone with “FULL TONE NEEDLES 300” is printed above and “HIS MASTERS VOICE” below. Manufacturer details printed on the bottom of the box, as well as the instruction to only use each needle once. Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co. is the Canadian branch of the of German-based company Deutsche Grammophon, founded by gramophone inventor Emile Berliner and his brother Joseph in Montreal in 1898. Over the next 10 years, Berliner Gram-O-Phone Co. would record and press records, as well as distribute various kinds of gramophones, in Montreal until it was sold in 1924 to the Victor Talking Machine Co.
- Subject
- music
- music equipment
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 105.03.0036
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- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- metal; fibre; plastic; coral; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0199 a-j
- Description
- Assorted Japanese hair pins and combs, all Kanzashi (a) red-coloured comb shaped into a half circle, 11.61x5.6, fine teeth. Spine is decorated buy 3-D white fabric peonies with green leaves and gold-coloured thread winding around the spine. The thread covers old-coloured circles and silver-coloured…
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- Title
- Hair Ornament
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- metal; fibre; plastic; coral; ivory
- Dimensions
- 18.2 cm
- Description
- Assorted Japanese hair pins and combs, all Kanzashi (a) red-coloured comb shaped into a half circle, 11.61x5.6, fine teeth. Spine is decorated buy 3-D white fabric peonies with green leaves and gold-coloured thread winding around the spine. The thread covers old-coloured circles and silver-coloured flowers.(b) white ivory tine forms hair pin , 14.01 x 6.0, decorative twisted wire and springs attached to orange coloured pieces of metal form decoration at top of pin. (c) silver coloured hair pin, 16.61 x 2.0, single tine extending to gold coloured flower at top with one gold coloured and one silver coloured leaf.(d) white ivory hair pin with single tine, 14.51 x 3.5. Decoration at top of tine is a red and white fabric flower with two green leaves as well as three additional small round flowers. (e) hair pin with a single black plastic tine, 17.01 x 1.8. Fabric rabbit attached to the top of the tine by a small spring.(f) hair pin with a single black plastic tine, 17.01 x 1.8. Fabric rabbit attached to the top of the tine by a small spring. (g) hair pin with ivory tine, 13.11 x 2.3. Fabric Japanese man attached to tine by a small green wire. (h) rectangular yellow plastic comb, 7.31 x 2.4.(i) rectangular blue coloured paper and red fabric, 5.01 x 1.3. hair pin with a single black plastic tine, 17.01 x 1.8. Fabric rabbit attached to the top of the tine by a small spring.(j) silver coloured hair pin ,18.21 x 2.0, double tined pin with decorative 'scrolls' from which small rectangular dangles are attached at top of pin. Ear cleaner extends from top of decoration.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0199 a-j
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- Date
- prior to 1913
- Material
- fabric
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0557
- Description
- A nearly square fabric handkerchief. Brown with white polka-dots, larger around border and smaller in centre.
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- Title
- Handkerchief
- Date
- prior to 1913
- Material
- fabric
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 54.0 cm
- Description
- A nearly square fabric handkerchief. Brown with white polka-dots, larger around border and smaller in centre.
- Subject
- accessories
- Credit
- Gift of Alpine Club of Canada, Canmore, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0557
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Miniature Cupboard
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.02.0122
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0122
- Description
- Japanese food storage cupboard. Rectangular shaped cupboard, solid wood back and top with wood grid sides and front. Wooden grid sides are immovable, 7.1h x 4.5w, and has wooden frame, 0.5w. Grid covers green wire mesh glued onto inside of cupboard, the two wooden framed grids covering green wire …
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- Title
- Miniature Cupboard
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 6.6 x 12.5 cm
- Description
- Japanese food storage cupboard. Rectangular shaped cupboard, solid wood back and top with wood grid sides and front. Wooden grid sides are immovable, 7.1h x 4.5w, and has wooden frame, 0.5w. Grid covers green wire mesh glued onto inside of cupboard, the two wooden framed grids covering green wire mesh in front are both movable side to side, the left one, 8.6h x 6.3w, fits into the groove, carved width of the insides of both the top and bottom of the cupboard, nearest the front. The right one, 8.6h x 6.3w, fits into the groove, carved the width of the insides of both the top and bottom of the cupboard, located behind the aforementioned one two drawers are located side by side at the bottom of the cupboard, 6.81 x 1.7h x 5.8w. Both pull out by way of round white knobs. Cupboard set onto four legs of wooden scroll design in front, plain at back. Located on the inside of the cupboard are two shelves, 2.91 x 7.0w. The left handed one is set lower then the other, 3.2 from bottom, flush to the left side grid. The right handed one is set higher then the other, 6.0 from the bottom, flush to the right side grid.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0122
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Novelty Decoration
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact108.05.0095%20a%2cb
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0095 a,b
- Description
- Japanese, to attach to purses or fans, etc. two fabric covered pieces joined at top, string loop at center, (a) front blue silk fabric with brown quilted horned bull, lying down, facing to the right (b) front green silk fabric with light brown quilted goat, lying down, with horns and beard, goat fa…
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- Title
- Novelty Decoration
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 3.7 cm
- Description
- Japanese, to attach to purses or fans, etc. two fabric covered pieces joined at top, string loop at center, (a) front blue silk fabric with brown quilted horned bull, lying down, facing to the right (b) front green silk fabric with light brown quilted goat, lying down, with horns and beard, goat facing to the left
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- adornment
- miniatures
- animal
- goat
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- Edith Morse Robb
- travel
- souvenir
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 108.05.0095 a,b
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- Date
- 1890 – 1935
- Material
- fibre; metal; stone
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0064
- Description
- A pin in the shape of a miniature sporran. Long, silky, black fibre tassel with three smaller white tassels hanging about midway in front and fastened at the top by small metal cones. The whole depends from a small, flat, oval, silver-coloured metal pin with clasp. Pin is etched with a drawing of t…
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- Title
- Pin
- Date
- 1890 – 1935
- Material
- fibre; metal; stone
- Dimensions
- 1.5 x 5.5 x 9.8 cm
- Description
- A pin in the shape of a miniature sporran. Long, silky, black fibre tassel with three smaller white tassels hanging about midway in front and fastened at the top by small metal cones. The whole depends from a small, flat, oval, silver-coloured metal pin with clasp. Pin is etched with a drawing of thistles, with an oval rosy-brown coloured faceted stone at its centre. Stored in box of cardboard with Blackwatch plaid cover. Handwritten inside cover; "From Father to Annie".
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.01.0064
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- Date
- 1875 – 1925
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0052
- Description
- An ornate, pressed copper box in shape of complex pointed arch with window opening in front; arch is composed of two convex shoulders, one atop the other, with the uppermost, smaller, reversing itself and becoming concave at the point; window opening in upper part of box follows this shape and is f…
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- Title
- Reliquary
- Date
- 1875 – 1925
- Material
- metal; glass; paper
- Dimensions
- 10.7 x 3.3 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- An ornate, pressed copper box in shape of complex pointed arch with window opening in front; arch is composed of two convex shoulders, one atop the other, with the uppermost, smaller, reversing itself and becoming concave at the point; window opening in upper part of box follows this shape and is further defined at its edges with cut out curlicues, wall surrounding the window has pressed, relief flowers and symbols in a bed curlicues, and small holes pierced through; sides of box follow shape and are plain with a dovetailed joint at the bottom, copper double strap handle on either side across the middle (for hanging?); plain copper back is flat of glass loose inside box appears to once have sat on two small copper flanges (now broken off) just below the window.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 109.02.0052
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- Date
- 1893 – 1930
- Material
- metal; glass;
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0035
- Description
- Black metal folding stereoscope. The rectangular frame has two square openings that allow light to pass through the image, which is inserted into tracks on the inside of the frame. Opposite the rectangular frame is a rounded frame containing two round glass lenses that also has a rounded cut-out wh…
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- Title
- Stereoscope
- Date
- 1893 – 1930
- Material
- metal; glass;
- Dimensions
- 7.1 x 13.5 x 7.5 cm
- Description
- Black metal folding stereoscope. The rectangular frame has two square openings that allow light to pass through the image, which is inserted into tracks on the inside of the frame. Opposite the rectangular frame is a rounded frame containing two round glass lenses that also has a rounded cut-out where the nose can fit. Between the two frames is an adjustable plate, allowing the image to be moved further from or closer to the viewer in order to be brought into focus. The stereoscope folds in on itself and latches with a small gold flat-top peg that fits into a small slot on the lens frame.
- Subject
- Crosby family
- Abegweit
- photography
- stereoscopes
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0035
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Trailing Headdress
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- Date
- ca. 1880 – 1950
- Material
- eagle feathers; fibre; hair; skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3029
- Description
- Narrow beaded headband of blue with yellow squares outlined in orange. Medallions, each beaded differently, with leather streamers and ermine skins at each end of browband. Dark golden eagle feathers, white horsehair tips, down at base. Train of green and purple fabric.
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- Title
- Trailing Headdress
- Date
- ca. 1880 – 1950
- Material
- eagle feathers; fibre; hair; skin; glass
- Description
- Narrow beaded headband of blue with yellow squares outlined in orange. Medallions, each beaded differently, with leather streamers and ermine skins at each end of browband. Dark golden eagle feathers, white horsehair tips, down at base. Train of green and purple fabric.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- beadwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3029
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- Date
- 1870 – 1930
- Material
- ceramic
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0220
- Description
- Shallow, circular, round, lidded container, white slip with indigo glaze dominant, gold lustre border trim and possibly decal, continuous design around bowl exterior and at lid rim. Decal design is multi-coloured fruit and leaf decoration; "2814" written on base.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1870 – 1930
- Material
- ceramic
- Dimensions
- 6.2 x 12.7 cm
- Description
- Shallow, circular, round, lidded container, white slip with indigo glaze dominant, gold lustre border trim and possibly decal, continuous design around bowl exterior and at lid rim. Decal design is multi-coloured fruit and leaf decoration; "2814" written on base.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0220
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- Date
- 1870 – 1920
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0254
- Description
- Lidded, lightweight box. Lid sits flush with bass on box rim. Pale coloured grass veneer on sides. Lid top well-designed in veneer, symmetrical, hexagonal diamond shaped design. Earth tones with yellow and purple accents. This box is contents of 102.04.0253.
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1870 – 1920
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 4.2 x 9.3 x 13.7 cm
- Description
- Lidded, lightweight box. Lid sits flush with bass on box rim. Pale coloured grass veneer on sides. Lid top well-designed in veneer, symmetrical, hexagonal diamond shaped design. Earth tones with yellow and purple accents. This box is contents of 102.04.0253.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0254
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