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Trinket Box

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Date: 1950 – 1950

Material: wood; metal; plastic, polystyrene

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0163

Description: A handmade (mortise and tenon construction) wooden box with feet and a hinged lid. The top has an inlaid wood design of a cougar attacking a mountain goat.

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1950 – 1950

Material: wood; metal; plastic, polystyrene

Dimensions: 5.7 x 10.5 x 13.7 cm

Description: A handmade (mortise and tenon construction) wooden box with feet and a hinged lid. The top has an inlaid wood design of a cougar attacking a mountain goat.

Subject: households; decorative; games; F.O. “Pat” Brewster; Dorothy Cranstone; crafts

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0163

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Trinket Box

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Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green fel…

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1945 – 1945

Material: stone

Dimensions: 4.3 x 5.7 x 9.2 cm

Description: A hand-carved, well-made, lidded box carved from soft Rocky Mountain marble. The box has a front and a back. The front has bevelled corners, whereas the back has square corners. The box interior has rounded corners and the lid fits smoothly and flushly into the cutout. Base is felted with green felt. The marble is black, streaked with white.

Subject: households; decorative; miniatures; Pete Neish; crafts; carving

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

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0201

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Trinket Box

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Date: 1938

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 102.04.1089

Description: Homemade looking wooden box with a raised back panel and metal bison with the caption “CANADA’S NATIONAL PARKS 1938” carved into the metal under the bison. Two large, decorative (?) nails on front of box in addition to four smaller and more practical ones. Wooden knobs on bottom of box so that it i…

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1938

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 20.3 x 19.5 x 16.5 cm

Description: Homemade looking wooden box with a raised back panel and metal bison with the caption “CANADA’S NATIONAL PARKS 1938” carved into the metal under the bison. Two large, decorative (?) nails on front of box in addition to four smaller and more practical ones. Wooden knobs on bottom of box so that it is elevated.

Subject: Nicholas Morant; Banff; Parks Canada; Canada’s National Parks 1938

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: 102.04.1089

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Trinket Box

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Date: 1932 – 1932

Material: wood; paint

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0159

Description: A rectangular box with a hinged lid. The bottom is stained dark brown and the lid has a handpainted scene of two men carrying staffs. On the bottom (blc) is “N.M. 1932”. The lid has a loose hinge and the paint is faded and chipped.

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Title: Trinket Box

Date: 1932 – 1932

Material: wood; paint

Dimensions: 5.3 x 10.8 x 17.8 cm

Description: A rectangular box with a hinged lid. The bottom is stained dark brown and the lid has a handpainted scene of two men carrying staffs. On the bottom (blc) is “N.M. 1932”. The lid has a loose hinge and the paint is faded and chipped.

Subject: households; decorative

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0159

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20 Beautiful Views of Canadian Pacific Rockies, The Road through the Switzerland of America

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Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Published Date: 1929

Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.

Call Number: V391-PG-C94-1

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Variant Title: 1. "The Gap" Alta 2. The Three Sisters, Canmore [Byron Harmon] 3. Buffalo in the Canadian National Park at Banff, Alta. 4. C.P.R. [Canadian Pacific Railway] Hotel and Bow Valley 5. Castle Mountain 6. Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks 7. Summit Lake and Mt. Wapta [Mount Wapta] 8. Mirror Lake and Lake Agnes, Near Lake Louise, Alta. 9. The Great Divide 10. Spiral Tunnel, Field, B.C. 11. Cathedral Mountain, Field, B.C. [Byron Harmon] 12. Field, B.C. 13. Stoney Creek Bridge 14. The Connaught Tunnel through Mount Mac Donald 15. Illecillewaet Valley from Lookout Point 16. Albert Canyon 17. Along the Fraser River [Byron Harmon] 18. Hell Gate, Fraser Canyon, B.C.

Place: Chicago, Ill. Made in U.S.

Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.

Published Date: 1929

Medium: Library - Postcard Series

Abstract: Front cover features Mt. Assiniboine (Mount Assiniboine), mountain guide, Giant Stairways Back cover features Chateau Lake Louise and Lake