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The Canadian Pacific Railway
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.02
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Title
- The Canadian Pacific Railway
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 40 x 28.2 cm
- Credit
- Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.02
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- Date
- 1880 – 1925
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 101.04.1001
- Description
- From Rogers Pass, bent bolt in piece of wood, splintering, large segment of support timber with rusting 1.8 cm diameter bent iron rod in drilled hole, one end sawed off, other broken.
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- Title
- Drift Bolt
- Date
- 1880 – 1925
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 9.0 x 42.5 x 42.5 cm
- Description
- From Rogers Pass, bent bolt in piece of wood, splintering, large segment of support timber with rusting 1.8 cm diameter bent iron rod in drilled hole, one end sawed off, other broken.
- Subject
- CPR
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Credit
- Gift of Rhoda Rouse, Calgary, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- 101.04.1001
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Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
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- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corne…
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- Title
- Hector Lake, Kicking Horse Pass, BC
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 32.8 x 48.0 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large glassy lake in centre of painting. Abstract foliage and stand of dead trees in foreground at right. Brown treed slopes on opposite shore with large snow-capped mountains in distance. Small white and red buildings on far shore of lake. Title written in bottom left corner. “F.M. Bell-Smith 1887” at bottom right.
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.07
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Japanese Woman and Child
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- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- ink and colour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BuW.05.01
- Description
- Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three egg…
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- Title
- Japanese Woman and Child
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 36.1 x 25.2 cm
- Description
- Frontispiece Japan Day by Day Volume I by Edward S. Morse. A farmyard scene. A woman wearing a grey kimono, blue sash, carries a baby on her back, he is dressed in blue and red and has a small kite in his left hand. She is looking down at a rooster who with a hen behind him are looking at three eggs on the ground. Five figures in background, houses to right centre, a snow-capped mountain is in background, sky is blue with yellowish clouds. Written on back: Mrs. Russell Robb Concord, Mass.
- Subject
- farmyard
- Mount Fujijama
- buildings
- people
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- BuW.05.01
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Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- photographic print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.18.01
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. …
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Title
- Kicking Horse Lake Looking East, Hector on the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Date
- 1887
- Medium
- photographic print on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.6 x 27.8 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with large lake dominating the centre. A small white building and storage tank [possibly a refueling station] can be seen on the far side of the lake. Train tracks run the width of foreground and seated figure [known to be Fredrick M. Bell-Smith] at easel in bottom right corner. Title typed in bottom left corner. Manufacturer’s mark “WM. NOTMAN & SON, MONTREAL” typed in bottom right.
- Subject
- mountains
- lake
- CPR
- Fredrick Bell-Smith
- Credit
- Gift of Mark Cullen, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.18.01
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Mount Lefroy N.W.T.
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- Date
- c. 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MaM.05.01
- Description
- Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in art…
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- Title
- Mount Lefroy N.W.T.
- Date
- c. 1888
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 15.7 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Left foreground evergreen trees on a slope, right foreground from centre left to tr mountain slope with some evergreen trees and burnt out forest. The snow capped mountain is centre right to near top of picture. Mountain range to left. Sky is partly cloudy, streaked with colour. On back in artist's hand: Mt. Lefroy N.W.T. Highest Peak on the C.P.R. line near Abbott Pass, more than 11,000 feet high. Also Twice One fifth less than twice
- Subject
- Canadian Rockies
- Mount Lefroy
- CPR
- Credit
- Gift of Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 1995
- Catalogue Number
- MaM.05.01
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Mount Sir Donald Station
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.01
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- Artist
- William Notman (1826 – 1891)
- Title
- Mount Sir Donald Station
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 22.6 cm
- Credit
- Purchased from Prints Old and Rare, San Francisco, USA, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- NoW.04.01
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Night Rain at Yanagihara
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- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Catalogue Number
- KiY.04.03
- Description
- dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
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- Title
- Night Rain at Yanagihara
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- woodblock on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 36.6 cm
- Description
- dark, rainy street scene with people carrying umbrellas and lanterns, with rickshaw and dog in the foreground
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- KiY.04.03
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- Date
- 1883 – 1887
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 106.08.1001 a-f
- Description
- Old, rusty railroad spikes from Roger's Pass. (a-c) 25.1x2.5, long, flat point, flattened round head (d) 15.1x3.8, thick, pointed, head protrudes to one side, domed (e) 10.0x2.9, short, flat point, head protrudes to one side, flat (f) 20.5x2.0, long, narrow, flat point, pounded dome head.
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- Title
- Railroad Spike
- Date
- 1883 – 1887
- Material
- metal
- Description
- Old, rusty railroad spikes from Roger's Pass. (a-c) 25.1x2.5, long, flat point, flattened round head (d) 15.1x3.8, thick, pointed, head protrudes to one side, domed (e) 10.0x2.9, short, flat point, head protrudes to one side, flat (f) 20.5x2.0, long, narrow, flat point, pounded dome head.
- Credit
- Gift of Rhoda Rouse, Calgary, 1967
- Catalogue Number
- 106.08.1001 a-f
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Railroad Spike
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- Date
- 1884 – 1887
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 106.08.1002
- Description
- Long, rusted, flat pointed railroad spike, pounded dome head.
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- Title
- Railroad Spike
- Date
- 1884 – 1887
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 25.1 cm
- Description
- Long, rusted, flat pointed railroad spike, pounded dome head.
- Credit
- Gift of A. Scovil Murray, Calgary, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- 106.08.1002
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- Date
- 1883
- Material
- metal; wood; plastic; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1021
- Description
- Short length of railway track mounted on wood base. The length of track (81.5) is mounted on a brown, finished, wooden base with a flat, black, plastic plaque in front, "A section of the original Canadian Pacific Transcontinental main line rail of 1883". Track has been sliced off at each end and se…
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- Title
- Track Section
- Date
- 1883
- Material
- metal; wood; plastic; fibre
- Dimensions
- 81.5 cm
- Description
- Short length of railway track mounted on wood base. The length of track (81.5) is mounted on a brown, finished, wooden base with a flat, black, plastic plaque in front, "A section of the original Canadian Pacific Transcontinental main line rail of 1883". Track has been sliced off at each end and securely mounted. Cast into side of rail is"CPR.Steel.Krupp.1883.". Rail has been cleaned but shows definite signs of usewith heavy gouge lines along one edge of top and pitting on the sides, theboard is lined with green felt underneath.
- Credit
- Gift of Canadian Pacific Hotels, Calgary, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.1021
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- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1072
- Description
- The barrel is made of wooden staves held together by six metal hoops, stands straight upright, has two metal handles and a 10 cm circular hole in the top. Branded on one side “CPR”. Does not include lid top .
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- Title
- Water Barrel
- Date
- 1880 – 1940
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 45.0 x 31.0 cm
- Description
- The barrel is made of wooden staves held together by six metal hoops, stands straight upright, has two metal handles and a 10 cm circular hole in the top. Branded on one side “CPR”. Does not include lid top .
- Credit
- Gift of Donna Spear, Chase, 2017
- Catalogue Number
- 110.01.1072
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