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Date
1790
Material
fibre
Catalogue Number
103.05.1114 a-e
Description
(a) Long sleeved, off-shoulder, long dress. Fitted bodice has fine cotton pleated at shoulder and caught at centre bust. Sleeves are full with silk embroidery above elbow. Long full skirt is finely tucked at waist. Silk embroidery around skirt, same as on sleeves. Flowers with connected tendri…
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Title
Wedding Ensemble
Date
1790
Material
fibre
Description
(a) Long sleeved, off-shoulder, long dress. Fitted bodice has fine cotton pleated at shoulder and caught at centre bust. Sleeves are full with silk embroidery above elbow. Long full skirt is finely tucked at waist. Silk embroidery around skirt, same as on sleeves. Flowers with connected tendrils. Black hooks and eyes for closure at back. (b) Very fine square veil. All edges embroidered. (c) Embroidered belt. (d,e) very small satin shoes with long thin fabric laces. Sole is fine leather.
Subject
households
clothing
Emma Leehman Schaffer
Mary Schaffer Warren
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
103.05.1114 a-e
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Date
1792
Material
paper; wood; glass
Catalogue Number
105.02.0003
Description
A rectangular document on white paper beginning: “Know all men by these Presents ...” followed by handwriting stating the particulars of the sale, dated in Middlesex on December 29th, 1792 and signed by the Justice of the Peace. The contents state the agreement of a bill-of-sale between Asa Nurse …
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Title
Bill-Of-Sale
Date
1792
Material
paper; wood; glass
Dimensions
16.0; 25.2 (frame) x 20.0; 30.3 (frame) cm
Description
A rectangular document on white paper beginning: “Know all men by these Presents ...” followed by handwriting stating the particulars of the sale, dated in Middlesex on December 29th, 1792 and signed by the Justice of the Peace. The contents state the agreement of a bill-of-sale between Asa Nurse and Thomas Buckminster. The bill is framed in a wide plain mahogany veneer frame with mitred corners.
Subject
households
Asa Nurse
Thomas Buchminster
real estate
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0003
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Date
1792
Material
wood; grass; metal
Catalogue Number
102.03.0091
Description
Sturdy chest, dovetailed corners, deep, fitted with hand-wrought hinges. Interior has small drawer and lidded shelf at one end top. Fitted with rope handles for carrying. Previously painted blue, remnants of stain on inside of lid and beside hardware. “Robert Procter . . . 1792” written in ink on …
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Title
Blanket Chest
Date
1792
Material
wood; grass; metal
Dimensions
48.3 x 48.5 x 124.3 cm
Description
Sturdy chest, dovetailed corners, deep, fitted with hand-wrought hinges. Interior has small drawer and lidded shelf at one end top. Fitted with rope handles for carrying. Previously painted blue, remnants of stain on inside of lid and beside hardware. “Robert Procter . . . 1792” written in ink on inside of lid.
Subject
households
furniture
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.03.0091
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Date
1796 – 1796
Material
fibre, flax; wood; paper; metal
Catalogue Number
107.02.0009
Description
A needlepoint sampler, in many colours, done in cross-stitch on a loosely woven ecru linen. The sampler has a narrow double-stitched border with a floral band at the top followed by rows of letters of the alphabet separated by horizontal bars. Most of the letters are worked twice together through…
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Title
Sampler
Date
1796 – 1796
Material
fibre, flax; wood; paper; metal
Dimensions
15.0; 18.0 (frame) x 20.0; 22.5 (frame) cm
Description
A needlepoint sampler, in many colours, done in cross-stitch on a loosely woven ecru linen. The sampler has a narrow double-stitched border with a floral band at the top followed by rows of letters of the alphabet separated by horizontal bars. Most of the letters are worked twice together through the alphabet repeating from A to D at the end, followed by another floral band as at the top, and then “Susanah Lehman November the 3 1796.” The sampler was originally framed in a simple brown wood frame with parallel line texture (wood grain?) and has a framer’s sticker on the back “The Royal Art Gallery” (Calgary, Alberta).
Subject
households
decorative
children
crafts
needlework
Susanah Lehman
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0009
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Date
1799
Material
fibre; wood
Catalogue Number
107.02.1007 a-c
Description
Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket f…
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Title
Embroidery Sampler
Date
1799
Material
fibre; wood
Dimensions
42.0 x 42.0 cm
Description
Traditional sampler, 4.0 wide border is a line of stitching in pyramid shapes with flower baskets. At the top of inside border is the upper case alphabet, one line of small letters, other in bigger letters and two lines. In the centre is a picture of a white house to the left, a green picket fence, two trees and to the right a two storey brown house. Below that is six lines of writing beginning "One Weeks Extremity May Teach Us ....." "Susan Lehman her work done In the ninth year Of Her Age (__ ?) 1799" * Someone numbered the labels as (a) and (b) and the sampler as (c). It is too fragile to change
Subject
households
furnishings
Susan Lehmann
Mary Schaffer Warren
hobbies
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
107.02.1007 a-c
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Date
1910
Material
metal; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.08.1072
Description
Textured silver coloured hinged snap closing case. Emblem soldered on to outside corner. Opened, each side is gold coloured with an elastic band extending from sides. Hand engraved on one side: "To James Brewster in kind remembrance Banff Nov 1910. H. Honigmann"
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Title
Cigarette Case
Date
1910
Material
metal; fibre
Dimensions
8.0 x 9.0 cm
Description
Textured silver coloured hinged snap closing case. Emblem soldered on to outside corner. Opened, each side is gold coloured with an elastic band extending from sides. Hand engraved on one side: "To James Brewster in kind remembrance Banff Nov 1910. H. Honigmann"
Subject
households
James Brewster
O.H. Honigmann
Credit
Gift of Forrest (Pat) Oliver Brewster, Banff, 1987
Catalogue Number
103.08.1072
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Date
1911 – 1911
Material
metal; silver
Catalogue Number
105.02.0069
Description
A miniature sterling silver spade with a grip handle and a flat square blade. There is a relief image of an eagle with outspread wings and banner beneath on handle. Writing on the spade blade: “Used by William Howard Taft, president of the United States, October 14, 1911 in turning the first spad…
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Title
Miniature Spade
Date
1911 – 1911
Material
metal; silver
Dimensions
0.1 x 2.0 x 10.2 cm
Description
A miniature sterling silver spade with a grip handle and a flat square blade. There is a relief image of an eagle with outspread wings and banner beneath on handle. Writing on the spade blade: “Used by William Howard Taft, president of the United States, October 14, 1911 in turning the first spadeful of earth for the Panama Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco 1915' with setting sun below and flowers and leaves framing the words. The back of handle is marked with hallmarks and “Sterling, Pat. appd for.”
Subject
households
souvenirs
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0069
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Date
1913
Material
hair; fibre
Catalogue Number
107.02.0024
Description
A rectangular piece of commercially woven needlepoint canvas with sampler design worked in wool slightly off centre and closer to the top. Background fabric natural ecru colour with rectangular sampler bordered in blue with light blue fret pattern edging. Alphabet of capital letters worked at the t…
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Title
Cross Stitch Sampler
Date
1913
Material
hair; fibre
Dimensions
23.0 x 30.4 cm
Description
A rectangular piece of commercially woven needlepoint canvas with sampler design worked in wool slightly off centre and closer to the top. Background fabric natural ecru colour with rectangular sampler bordered in blue with light blue fret pattern edging. Alphabet of capital letters worked at the top in tan colour with cross stitch, with a cross stitched dog filling the space left at the end of the alphabet, then a row of blue cross stitching divides the numerals from 1 through 9 to 0 in light green, ending with the date "1913", then a blue line followed by "Catharine Robb", in pink, "her sampler, aged 7", in light green. Followed by a blue line with a small looped garland of pink flowers hanging from it, and a picture below carefully worked in needlepoint of a basket of flowers at the centre and a tree in pink flowerpot on either side.
Subject
households
decorative
craft
needlework
CR
children
Edith Morse Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
107.02.0024
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Portable; Chautauqua Desk

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Date
1913
Material
wood; paper; metal; stone
Catalogue Number
102.03.1018 a-d
Description
A folding, portable wooden desk. "The Chautauqua Industral Art Desk a plan to promote the culture of work and play among children in the home". A map of the United States on the back of the upright. A paper scroll 49.0 cm wide rolls up and down to display various learning devices - geometric sha…
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Title
Portable; Chautauqua Desk
Date
1913
Material
wood; paper; metal; stone
Description
A folding, portable wooden desk. "The Chautauqua Industral Art Desk a plan to promote the culture of work and play among children in the home". A map of the United States on the back of the upright. A paper scroll 49.0 cm wide rolls up and down to display various learning devices - geometric shapes, animal shapes, flowers, people, music, writing, telegrahic codes, shorthand, business forms, perspective, electrical symbols, trains, illustration, colours, flags, etc. Base is a chalkboard. Two lesson books accompany the desk along with a box of white chalk.
Subject
households
children
schooling
Chautauqua
Credit
Purchased from Phyllis Cain, Banff, 1988
Catalogue Number
102.03.1018 a-d
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Date
1913 – 1913
Material
paper
Catalogue Number
105.02.0031
Description
A black and white studio photograph of a woman (Isabella Thompson Brewster) with black dress sitting in wooden chair with a carved back.
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Title
Photographic Print
Date
1913 – 1913
Material
paper
Dimensions
15.8 x 9.5 cm
Description
A black and white studio photograph of a woman (Isabella Thompson Brewster) with black dress sitting in wooden chair with a carved back.
Subject
photography
families
households
Isabella Brewster
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0031
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Date
1914
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
103.08.1152
Description
A slightly curved silver flask with a screw on lid. The flask is inscribed “Presented by Georgeson and Co Ltd., Calgary. Banff Bonspeil .1914.” on the centre of the flat side of the flask. Above the inscription, near the neck of the flask there are engraved hallmarks “A&J.Z”,, an engraving of a fi…
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Title
Commemorative Flask
Date
1914
Material
metal
Dimensions
15.5 x 9 cm
Description
A slightly curved silver flask with a screw on lid. The flask is inscribed “Presented by Georgeson and Co Ltd., Calgary. Banff Bonspeil .1914.” on the centre of the flat side of the flask. Above the inscription, near the neck of the flask there are engraved hallmarks “A&J.Z”,, an engraving of a figure, and “n”.
Subject
households
sport
Bonspeil
Bankhead
Credit
Gift of Ruth A Biss, Nanaimo, 2013
Catalogue Number
103.08.1152
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Date
1914
Material
metal; silver
Catalogue Number
103.08.1153
Description
A silver card holder in the shape of a change purse. The holder has a curved top and a flat bottom edge. The inscription on the front reads “Mrs. D. G. Wilson A Token of Appreciation from the Bachelors of Bankhead 1914”. On the back “T S” and the image of a lion, and “O” are engraved or stamped. Th…
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Title
Card Holder
Date
1914
Material
metal; silver
Dimensions
6.5 x 9 x 15.5 with strap extended cm
Description
A silver card holder in the shape of a change purse. The holder has a curved top and a flat bottom edge. The inscription on the front reads “Mrs. D. G. Wilson A Token of Appreciation from the Bachelors of Bankhead 1914”. On the back “T S” and the image of a lion, and “O” are engraved or stamped. There is a metal chain link strap that is connected to the sides of the card holder, the two chains from either side are connected by a metal circle.
Subject
households
adornment
Bankhead
Credit
Gift of Ruth A Biss, Nanaimo, 2013
Catalogue Number
103.08.1153
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Date
1915
Material
satin; fibre; cotton
Catalogue Number
102.01.1008
Description
The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At ea…
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Title
Quilt
Date
1915
Material
satin; fibre; cotton
Dimensions
1.5 x 1.5 cm
Description
The quilt is made primarily of a blue fabric on the front and back. The front of the quilt presents a series of squares in blue, white, and red. Each square has the name or initials of the women that worked on the quilt. The central area is embroidered “The Bankhead Ladies Patriotic Society.” At each of the four corners of the internal detail there is a small red cross within a white square. On the inside of each of these white squares there is a red square with an embroidered flower.
Subject
households
furnishings
crafts
quilting
Bankhead
Credit
Gift of Ruth A Biss, Nanaimo, 2013
Catalogue Number
102.01.1008
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Date
1915
Material
paper; wood; metal
Catalogue Number
105.02.0100
Description
Black and white photograph of a man standing in front of an ornate fireplace. He is dressed in a three piece suit with a watch chain and is smoking a cigarette. He is in profile and is looking downwards and is quite pensive looking. Photograph is framed in a dark wooden frame, has wire for hanging…
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Title
Photograph Print
Date
1915
Material
paper; wood; metal
Dimensions
23.0 x 28.0 cm
Description
Black and white photograph of a man standing in front of an ornate fireplace. He is dressed in a three piece suit with a watch chain and is smoking a cigarette. He is in profile and is looking downwards and is quite pensive looking. Photograph is framed in a dark wooden frame, has wire for hanging on wall. Marks: on framer's label on back "No. 20626 Doll & Richards Incorporated 71 Newbury St. Boston". Hand written in ink "Russell Robb 1915".
Subject
households
photography
Russell Robb
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
105.02.0100
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Date
1916 – 1916
Material
fibre; metal; glass; rubber
Catalogue Number
104.51.0001 a,b
Description
A gas mask (a) and its case (b).a) A gas mask made of fine rubberized canvas. The mask is held securely to the face by four elastic straps and one twill tape strap. The mask has round glass lenses with metal frames. There is a spring clamp inside to pinch the nostrils and a rubber tube for inser…
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Title
Gas Mask
Date
1916 – 1916
Material
fibre; metal; glass; rubber
Dimensions
23.0 (b) x 22.0 (a); 8.5 (b) x 65.0 (a) (inclusive); 25.0 (b) cm
Description
A gas mask (a) and its case (b).a) A gas mask made of fine rubberized canvas. The mask is held securely to the face by four elastic straps and one twill tape strap. The mask has round glass lenses with metal frames. There is a spring clamp inside to pinch the nostrils and a rubber tube for insertion into the mouth that leads to a metal nozzle outside with a rubber sack. The breathing aparatus is attached to a cloth hose with rigid rings leading to metal canister with a filter at the bottom. b) The rectangular carrying case is made of khaki coloured canvas with a snapping flap and ring on the sides. The case has two compartments to fit the canister on one side and a metal coil at the bottom of the other which also contains the mask. A long cord with a square envelope and cardboard is attached to one corner. The case has a canvas shoulder strap with an adjustable metal buckle and button. There is an instruction sheet inside. The case has “-RIS ONLY” and “3” stencilled on the flap.
Subject
households
military
uniforms
chemical warfare
WWI
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
104.51.0001 a,b
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Date
1916 – 1916
Material
metal, copper
Catalogue Number
102.07.0006
Description
A small, short handled shovel. The hollow round handle is riveted to the back of the rim of the flat bottomed blade. The shovel is stamped with “Jaskells 1916”.
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Title
Fireplace Shovel
Date
1916 – 1916
Material
metal, copper
Dimensions
9.5 x 11.5 x 27.0 cm
Description
A small, short handled shovel. The hollow round handle is riveted to the back of the rim of the flat bottomed blade. The shovel is stamped with “Jaskells 1916”.
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
102.07.0006
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Date
1910 – 1971
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.19.1020 a,b
Description
A dark-coloured ceramic pestle broken in two pieces.
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Title
Pestle
Date
1910 – 1971
Material
ceramic
Description
A dark-coloured ceramic pestle broken in two pieces.
Subject
households
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1978
Catalogue Number
104.19.1020 a,b
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Date
1910 – 1960
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.19.1064 a,b
Description
Two ceramic jelly molds. One mold is green on the outside.
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Title
Jelly Mold
Date
1910 – 1960
Material
ceramic
Description
Two ceramic jelly molds. One mold is green on the outside.
Subject
households
Dorothy Cranstone
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1992
Catalogue Number
104.19.1064 a,b
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Date
1910 – 1960
Material
ceramic
Catalogue Number
104.19.1065
Description
A cylindrical ceramic container with no lid. The crock is marked “1/2 IMPERIAL” and “MEDALTA POTTERIES LTD. MEDICINE HAT ALBERTA.”
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Title
Crock
Date
1910 – 1960
Material
ceramic
Description
A cylindrical ceramic container with no lid. The crock is marked “1/2 IMPERIAL” and “MEDALTA POTTERIES LTD. MEDICINE HAT ALBERTA.”
Subject
households
Dorothy Cranstone
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1992
Catalogue Number
104.19.1065
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Date
1910 – 1960
Material
metal
Catalogue Number
104.19.1067 a,b
Description
Two tin pie pans.a) The bottom of the inside of this pan has a slightly raised, textured surface and is marked “BAKE-RITE TINWARE 10.”b) This pan is marked “Ekcoloy.”
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Title
Pie Pan
Date
1910 – 1960
Material
metal
Description
Two tin pie pans.a) The bottom of the inside of this pan has a slightly raised, textured surface and is marked “BAKE-RITE TINWARE 10.”b) This pan is marked “Ekcoloy.”
Subject
households
Dorothy Cranstone
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1992
Catalogue Number
104.19.1067 a,b
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