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Elliott Barnes fonds

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Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds pertains to: Elliott Barnes and Barnes family; pack trips; wildlife; Alaska trip; Eau Claire logging operations in Spray Valley; Jumping Pound homestead, Morley and S-L Ranch; Sawback Lake trip; bear hunting trip; Banff area views; Paradise Valley ACC camp; hockey at Banff; Stoney Indians at…

Date Range: [ca.1905-ca.1914]

Reference Code: V48

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print

Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 48

Sous-Fonds: V 48

Accession Number: 2512, 2580, 3247, 3307, 5431, 5076

Reference Code: V48

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca.1905-ca.1914]

Physical Description: ca.500 photographs : prints, negatives

History / Biographical: Elliott Chappel Barnes, 1866-1938, was a rancher, outfitter and trail guide and professional photographer at Kootenay Plains, Banff and Jumping Pound, Alberta. Barnes was born in Rochester, New York in 1866. In the early 1890s he travelled throughout the American Rockies supporting himself as an itinerant photographer. In 1905, Barnes and his family immigrated to Canada and homesteaded on the Kootenay Plains. For a short time, Barnes ran a small outfitting operation out of Banff, mostly dealing with the newly-created Alpine Club of Canada and its members. Also, while wintering in Banff during 1907-1908, he worked briefly with Byron Harmon in the photographic business. Following this association, Barnes upgraded from a small "pocket" Kodak camera to a 5x7 Graflex with a stereo adaptor. Utilizing this camera, he published a set of stereo view-cards and custom postcards. In 1908, Barnes moved to a homestead at Little Jumping Pound Creek in the foothills west of Calgary and abandoned photography as a profession. After several farming ventures near Calgary, the family moved into the city, where Elliott Barnes died in 1938.

Scope & Content: Fonds pertains to: Elliott Barnes and Barnes family; pack trips; wildlife; Alaska trip; Eau Claire logging operations in Spray Valley; Jumping Pound homestead, Morley and S-L Ranch; Sawback Lake trip; bear hunting trip; Banff area views; Paradise Valley ACC camp; hockey at Banff; Stoney Indians at Kootenay Plains; Bankhead mine site and operations; winter trip; Mount Rainer, Washington; other (mainly people, places and activities)

Notes: A detailed biography of Elliott Barnes can be found in: "A Delicate Wilderness: The Photography of Elliott Barnes, 1905- 1914" by Edward Cavell (Banff: Altitude Publishing and the Whyte Foundation, 1983).

Name Access: Barnes, Elliott

Subject Access: Arts; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Natural resources; Sports, recreation and leisure

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

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: modern reference prints

Creator: Barnes, Elliott

Category: Arts; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Natural resources; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on accession records

Processing Status: Processed

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Family Photographs

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Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to collected prints or prints from Barnes negatives. See Notes for full list

Date Range: 1905-1914

Reference Code: V48 / II / PA - 1 to 11

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph

4 images

Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V48

Series: II. Prints

Sous-Fonds: V48

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V48 / II / PA - 1 to 11

GMD: Photograph

Date Range: 1905-1914

Physical Description: 11 photographs :

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to collected prints or prints from Barnes negatives. See Notes for full list

Notes: LIST OF PRINTS and [corresponding negatives] :; 1 Nora Drummond-Davies and dog, Victoria, July 1934; 2 Nora Drummond-Davies and dog, Victoria, 1941; 3, 4 Headstone on grave of Nora Drummond-Davies; 5 Elliott Barnes and dog (Gyp) [V48/NG - 1]; 6 Elliott Barnes fishing [V48/NG - 22]; 7 Elliott Barnes' pack trip from Red Deer to Kootenay Plains, glacial rock west of Red Deer, 1905 [V48/NA - 11]; 8 Elliott Barnes' spring bear hunt on the Columbia River, Barnes with bear skin, 1906 [V48/NA - 218]; 9 Waterfall (top of Johnston's Canyon?) [V48/NA - 345]; 10 Waterfall [V48/NA - 65]; 11 Hunter [V48/NA - 406]

Name Access: Barnes, Elliott; Drummond-Davies, Nora

Subject Access: Activities; Dogs; Exploration; Family and personal life; Fishing; Memorial

Geographic Access: Victoria; Red Deer; Kootenay Plains; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: Access by appointment only

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Unknown woman with children

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Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Scope & Content: [Unknown woman with children]

Date Range: ca. 1906

Reference Code: V48 / NA65 - 485

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Negative

1 image

Part Of: Elliott Barnes fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V48

Sous-Fonds: V48

Accession Number: n/a

Reference Code: V48 / NA65 - 485

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: ca. 1906

Physical Description: 1 Negative

Scope & Content: [Unknown woman with children]

Name Access: Barnes, Elliott

Subject Access: First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Recognizing Relations Collection

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: English

Creator: Barnes, Elliott

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.The photographs in the Elliot Barnes fonds were taken between 1900-1910. In interviews with Stoney Elders, this era was found to be outside the scope of their rememberance. No new identifications or confirmations were made.; 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.