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Canada and America album fonds

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Part Of: Canada and America album fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of a photograph album titled "Canada and America, 28 Sept. to 14 Dec. 1889" that chronicles a journey through Canada and the United States, specifically the Canadian Rockies, the interior of British Columbia to Vancouver Island, Canada and south through Washington state to California…

Date Range: 1889

Reference Code: V388

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print

Part Of: Canada and America album fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 388

Sous-Fonds: V 388

Accession Number: 6261

Reference Code: V388

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print

Responsibility: Album was compiled by an unknown traveler, possibly British

Date Range: 1889

Physical Description: 1 photograph album (73 prints).-- 7 photographs: copy negatives, b&w

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of a photograph album titled "Canada and America, 28 Sept. to 14 Dec. 1889" that chronicles a journey through Canada and the United States, specifically the Canadian Rockies, the interior of British Columbia to Vancouver Island, Canada and south through Washington state to California, USA. Views were probably purchased enroute from well-known artists, including Canadian photographers A. B. Thom and C. S. Bailey, and American photographers Taber, Fiske and C. R. Savage.; 7 b&w copy negatives

Notes: Purchase was made possible through a grant from the Department of Communications, Government of Canada

Name Access: Canada and America album

Subject Access: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel

Access Restrictions: Some restrictions on access to originals; Public domain (other restrictions may apply)

Language: Language is English

Creator: Canada and America album

Category: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on title on album

Processing Status: Processed

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[Unknown children in front of tipi]

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: [Unknown children in front of tipi]

Date Range: 1910

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3a / 7 / NG - 7

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Negative

2 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D / 3: Organizations

Accession Number: n/a

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3a / 7 / NG - 7

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: 1910

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w glass negative ; 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Scope & Content: [Unknown children in front of tipi]

Subject Access: First Nations; Indigenous Peoples

Geographic Access: Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park

Language: English

Conservation: Scratches on negative

Title Source: Stoney Nakoda Elders provided naming and other culturally relevant information during interviews held for Recognizing Relations, an archives initiative active from 2014-2023. . No identification was possible.; The goal of this initiative was to name local Indigenous peoples in photographs held in the WMCR archives as well as encouraging access for Indigenous communities to these images.

Processing Status: Processed

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1910

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.185

Description: room with piano in the cornerverso: triangle

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1910

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 16.5 cm

Description: room with piano in the cornerverso: triangle

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.185

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.170

Description: house with fence. Catharine’s childhood home?

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.0 x 16.5 cm

Description: house with fence. Catharine’s childhood home?

Subject: house

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.170

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.202

Description: three houses linked by a fence with a street in front of them

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 13.5 x 20.5 cm

Description: three houses linked by a fence with a street in front of them

Subject: house

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.202

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.203

Description: three trees with figure in the middle

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1911

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15.0 x 13.0 cm

Description: three trees with figure in the middle

Subject: tree

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.203

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1912

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.201

Description: house with three chimneys. Catharine’s childhood home

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1912

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 10.5 x 17.5 cm

Description: house with three chimneys. Catharine’s childhood home

Subject: house

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.201

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1913

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.104

Description: small blue and white dishes draw in two horizontal lines 1 cm think

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1913

Medium: coloured graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15.3 x 24.0 cm

Description: small blue and white dishes draw in two horizontal lines 1 cm think

Subject: dishes

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.104

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Untitled

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Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Date: 1913

Medium: wax pastel; graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.174

Description: five figures looking to viewers right, standing in straight line

1 image

Artist: Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1913

Medium: wax pastel; graphite on paper

Dimensions: 15.5 x 23.0 cm

Description: five figures looking to viewers right, standing in straight line

Subject: figures; blue dress; red dress

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyC.03.174

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Mt. Resplendent

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Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Date: 1914

Medium: graphite on paper

Catalogue Number: JaA.03.15

Description: A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain scene. The view is looking in between two mountains who are cropped at either side of the page. In between them is one mountain who's peak is in the left third of the page. Trees are scattered across the mountains in the foreground.

1 image

Artist: Alexander Young Jackson (1882 – 1974, Canadian)

Title: Mt. Resplendent

Date: 1914

Medium: graphite on paper

Dimensions: 19.0 x 25.3 cm

Description: A stylistically loose drawing of a mountain scene. The view is looking in between two mountains who are cropped at either side of the page. In between them is one mountain who's peak is in the left third of the page. Trees are scattered across the mountains in the foreground.