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Alpine Ibex

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Date: 1940

Medium: charcoal on paper

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.04

Description: A charcoal drawing from the chest up of an alpine ibex. The ibex is facing to his right, long horns curve gracefully back.

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Artist: J. Monroe Thorington (1894 – 1989, American)

Title: Alpine Ibex

Date: 1940

Medium: charcoal on paper

Dimensions: 25.0 x 20.5 cm

Description: A charcoal drawing from the chest up of an alpine ibex. The ibex is facing to his right, long horns curve gracefully back.

Subject: animal; alpine ibex

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: ThM.03.04

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Antelope head

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1946

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.06

Description: A finely detailed drawing of an antelope head, the antelope is facing to the left

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Antelope head

Date: 1946

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 23.0 x 27.5 cm

Description: A finely detailed drawing of an antelope head, the antelope is facing to the left

Subject: animal, antelope

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.06

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Banff Indian Days posters

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil pain…

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1950]; 1936; 1937; 1949

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Textual record; Poster; Drawing; Published record

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: I.D.3. Personal and professional : Organizations

Sous-Fonds: I. Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3 / 1 - 14

GMD: Textual record; Poster; Drawing; Published record

Responsibility: Published and artwork attributed to Ernie Kehr, W.L. Kihn, G.H.W. Ashley, Crag & Canyon Press, Palenske, Canadian Pacific and Multi Color Poster

Date Range: [ca. 1930-1950]; 1936; 1937; 1949

Physical Description: 14 posters : colour and b&w ; 35 x 56 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 14 colour and b&w oversized promotional posters and information boards for Banff Indian Days celebrations, promoted by Canadian Pacific. Posters largely feature identified and unidentified Indigenous people, notably Chief Spotted Eagle and Blind Eagle. Art medium includes oil paint process mounted on cardboard made in Canada and distributed by Exhibits Branch Canadian Pacific, lithographic prints, and a mounted drawing attributed to Palenske. Some have annotations or stamps on the back.

Notes: Possibly unassociated shipping packing material addressed to Norman Luxton at the Trading Post from E.A. Kehr found in box - this has not been assigned a number. D3-10, a lithographic promotional material from 1936 has an identical design to LUX / II / F1 / 47, an Indian Days poster from 1928 Items LUX / I / D3 / 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 were originally associated with LUX / I / D3a / 6, which contains brochures and a flyer from Banff Indian Days LUX / I / D3 / 8, Palenske may have potentionally used photograph LUX / I / D3a / PA-26 as reference

Material Details: Some posters have foldable cardboard stand at back to place upright on surface, adhesives, and perhaps mounting additives.

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; Kehr, Ernie; Palenske, Reinhold H.; Canadian Pacific Railway

Subject Access: Activities; Advertising; Community events; Banff Indian Days; Indigenous Peoples; Tourism

Geographic Access: Banff; Alberta; Banff National Park

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Bear sketch

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Date: 1943

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.02

Description: A grizzly bear is looking full face forward, face in fine detail, lightly sketched body, no feet

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Artist: Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius (1869 – 1959, American)

Title: Bear sketch

Date: 1943

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 31.0 x 24.0 cm

Description: A grizzly bear is looking full face forward, face in fine detail, lightly sketched body, no feet

Subject: animal, bear; grizzly bear

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: RuC.03.02

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Beautiful Cloud Effect, Banff

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1910

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-2

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Responsibility: Published for Sign of the Goat Curio Co. Limited, Banff, Alta.

Place: Montreal

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Published Date: ca. 1910

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Notes: b&w

Accession Number: 6214

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-2

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Beer Room, Canmore

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.25

Description: A couple, man with hat and a woman is sitting at a table on which are glasses. The table is centre bottom, half round. The couple is in conversation, other people in the background.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Beer Room, Canmore

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Dimensions: 29.2 x 36.7 cm

Description: A couple, man with hat and a woman is sitting at a table on which are glasses. The table is centre bottom, half round. The couple is in conversation, other people in the background.

Subject: figure, group; industry; coal mining

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1989

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.25

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Between Shifts

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.14

Description: The right side of the picture is dominated by on man sitting at a table with hat and coat, with a glass to his lips. A table is to centre left, glass on it, other men in background.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Between Shifts

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Dimensions: 29.2 x 36.8 cm

Description: The right side of the picture is dominated by on man sitting at a table with hat and coat, with a glass to his lips. A table is to centre left, glass on it, other men in background.

Subject: figure; group; male; industry; coal mining

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1989

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.14

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Bill Hargrave

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Date: c. 1950

Medium: pastel on sandpaper

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.01

Description: A head and shoulder portrait of Bill Hargrave (see de Grandmaison file for information on Mr. Hargrave). He is wearing a tam, green-yellow-red with a pom-pon, a shirt and tie, and a shawl-necked sweater

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Artist: Nicholas Raffael de Grandmaison (1892 – 1978, Canadian)

Title: Bill Hargrave

Date: c. 1950

Medium: pastel on sandpaper

Dimensions: 61.0 x 50.5 cm

Description: A head and shoulder portrait of Bill Hargrave (see de Grandmaison file for information on Mr. Hargrave). He is wearing a tam, green-yellow-red with a pom-pon, a shirt and tie, and a shawl-necked sweater

Subject: portrait; male

Credit: Gift of Sonia de Grandmaison, West Vancouver, 1985

Catalogue Number: DgN.03.01

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Bow Falls, Banff

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1910

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-14

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Responsibility: Published for Sign of the Goat Curio Co. Limited, Banff, Alta.

Place: Montreal

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Published Date: ca. 1910

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Notes: b&w

Accession Number: 6214

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-14

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Bow River Bridge, Banff

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1910

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-23

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Responsibility: Published for Sign of the Goat Curio Co. Limited, Banff, Alta.

Place: Montreal

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Published Date: ca. 1910

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Notes: b&w

Accession Number: 6214

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-23

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Bow River Valley and Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1943

Call Number: V466/PG-P75np-11

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Variant Title: C.P.R. Hotel, Golf Links and Bow River, Banff, Canadian Rockies; Government Bath, Banff, Canadian Rockies; Bow Valley from C.P.R. Hotel, Banff, Canadian Rockies; Mt. Rundle [Mount Rundle], 9,798 Ft., Banff, Canadian Rockies; Bow Falls and Cascade Mountain, Banff, Canadian Rockies; The Falls, Johnston Canyon, Banff, Canadian Rockies; Chateau Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies; The Poppies, Lake Louise, Alta.; Cascade's of Time

Place: Imprime en Allemagne [Printed in Germany]

Published Date: ca. 1943

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Abstract: A postcard envelope containing a series of minature photographs

Notes: Annotated; b&w; Includes postage stamp

Accession Number: 7234

Call Number: V466/PG-P75np-11

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Bow Valley & Loop Drive-way, Banff

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1910

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-22

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Responsibility: Published for Sign of the Goat Curio Co. Limited, Banff, Alta.

Place: Montreal

Publisher: Novelty Mfg. & Art Prtg. Co. Ltd.

Published Date: ca. 1910

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Notes: b&w

Accession Number: 6214

Call Number: V466/PG-N85-6-22

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Briquette Plant, Canmore Mine 1944

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.19

Description: Mine site with many buildings of various shapes is centre and foreground. Mountain range in background The Three Sisters. Between the mountains and the site is a row of trees.

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Artist: Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper (1898 – 1994, Canadian)

Title: Briquette Plant, Canmore Mine 1944

Date: 1944

Medium: wax crayon on paper

Dimensions: 29.2 x 36.6 cm

Description: Mine site with many buildings of various shapes is centre and foreground. Mountain range in background The Three Sisters. Between the mountains and the site is a row of trees.

Subject: industry; coal mining; Canadian Rockies; The Three Sisters

Credit: Purchased from Kathleen Frances Daly Pepper, 1989

Catalogue Number: DaK.03.19

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Canadian Rockies, Banff and Lake Louise

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: ca. 1940

Author: [Harmon, Byron?]

Publisher: Byron Harmon

Call Number: V129/PG-1

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Variant Title: Beautiful Bow lake, Source of the Bow River, Banff National Park The Great Divide, waters flow west to the Pacific and east to the Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean The Spiral Tunnels, Yoho National Park, B.C. Emerald Lake and Mt. Burgess [Mount Burgess], Yoho National Park, B.C. The Kicking Horse Canyon, Yoho National Park Cathedral Peak, Altitude 10,454 ft., Yoho National Park Mt. Stephen [Mount Stephen] Train entering Lower Spiral Tunnel Buffalo or Bison, Banff National Park Black Bear and Cubs, Banff National Park Mt. Field [Mount Field] and Kicking Horse River, Yoho National Park The Bow Valley, showing golf course, Banff National Park Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park Cascade Mountain, Altitude 9825 ft., from Administration Bldg. [Administration Building], Banff Mt. Rundle [Mount Rundle], Altitude 9665 ft., Banff National Park The Three Sisters, Banff National Park The Lakes in the Clouds, Banff National Park Lake Louise, and Victoria Glacier, Banff National Park Chateau Lake Louise, Swimming Pool in Foreground, Banff National Park Mountain Sheep or Big Horn, Banff National Park Moraine Lake and Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park