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Slide Binder

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Date: 1991

Material: plastic; cardboard

Catalogue Number: 105.05.0016

Description: Unused box of slide binders. Box is yellow, black, and beige with German and English writing. Inside are 20 square plastic slides with white fronts and black backing. Small piece of paper with instructions in German, English, and French.

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Title: Slide Binder

Date: 1991

Material: plastic; cardboard

Dimensions: 5.5 x 6.5 x 5.5 cm

Description: Unused box of slide binders. Box is yellow, black, and beige with German and English writing. Inside are 20 square plastic slides with white fronts and black backing. Small piece of paper with instructions in German, English, and French.

Subject: Whyte home; photography; slides

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

Catalogue Number: 105.05.0016

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Can Opener

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Date: 1991

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0176

Description: A tiny metal cylinder, shaped like a beer can and covered in a wrap advertising “Miller HIGH LIFE”. The cylinder has a small brass button on the top that, when pressed, releases a metal bottle opener from the opposite end. The end with the bottle opener is stamped with “MADE IN W. GERMANY”

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Title: Can Opener

Date: 1991

Material: metal

Dimensions: 2.0 x 2.0 x 6.5 cm

Description: A tiny metal cylinder, shaped like a beer can and covered in a wrap advertising “Miller HIGH LIFE”. The cylinder has a small brass button on the top that, when pressed, releases a metal bottle opener from the opposite end. The end with the bottle opener is stamped with “MADE IN W. GERMANY”

Subject: Whyte home; drinking; tools

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

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0176

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Commemorative Pin

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Date: 1980

Material: metal

Catalogue Number: 105.02.0154

Description: A small brass pin with “ALBERTA 75 PIONEER 1905 1980” in blue and red on the front.

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Title: Commemorative Pin

Date: 1980

Material: metal

Dimensions: 1.8 x 1.5 cm

Description: A small brass pin with “ALBERTA 75 PIONEER 1905 1980” in blue and red on the front.

Subject: Whyte home; Alberta; event

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

Catalogue Number: 105.02.0154

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Bird Figurine Set

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Date: 1977

Material: wood; metal; paper

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0094 a-h

Description: A set of eight small, brightly painted, wooden birds. Each bird is shaped and coloured in a stylized manner to represent different kinds of birds. Metal tails and bills have been added to some. All stand on two toothpick like metal legs attached into a flat green square base. (a) red, partridge lik…

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Title: Bird Figurine Set

Date: 1977

Material: wood; metal; paper

Dimensions: 3.0 x 1.2 x 3.3 cm

Description: A set of eight small, brightly painted, wooden birds. Each bird is shaped and coloured in a stylized manner to represent different kinds of birds. Metal tails and bills have been added to some. All stand on two toothpick like metal legs attached into a flat green square base. (a) red, partridge like, with bill in air, white spots, yellow eye. (b) yellow with brown head, long bill, crest on head, striped wing. (c )yellow with green head, long bill in air white dot on wing. (d) yellow, rooster like, with red head and comb, full striped green tail. (e) white with grey head, short bill, brown wings with bands at tips. (f) white with red circle around eye, long bill, brown wings, short tail. (g) blue with red wing, yellow bill and crest, white stripes around neck.( h)grey with black head with crest, red dot on wing.

Subject: Whyte home; households; decorative; miniatures; animal; bird; partridge; rooster

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0094 a-h

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Replica Tikis

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Date: 1976 – 1976

Material: stone; plastic

Catalogue Number: 109.02.0054 a,b

Description: Two green monkey-like pendants; seated figures with legs bowed to sides and feet clasped together; bent arms resting on thighs; head cocked to side with large circular eyes, flat nose, and large heart-shaped mouth open with tongue protruding; small hole drilled through forehead; front in relief, ba…

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Title: Replica Tikis

Date: 1976 – 1976

Material: stone; plastic

Description: Two green monkey-like pendants; seated figures with legs bowed to sides and feet clasped together; bent arms resting on thighs; head cocked to side with large circular eyes, flat nose, and large heart-shaped mouth open with tongue protruding; small hole drilled through forehead; front in relief, back flat: a)jade more simple with incised, carved features as above; holes cut through between legs and arms; 32.0 cm long, narrow black ribbon threaded through hole in top and knotted together at ends. (Marks: sticker, "332...13.00" (removed). b)plastic red circles painted around eyes; features formed in low relief; reproduction of (a).

Subject: Whyte home; travel; souvenir; collectables; households; accessories

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

Catalogue Number: 109.02.0054 a,b

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Animal Figurine Set

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Date: 1976

Material: ivory; bean

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0106 a,b

Description: (a) is a hollowed out, red bean into which rests a stopper in the form of an ivory elephant. Inside the beans lie approximately 100 very miniature elephants enclosed in cellophane. Enclosed in small cardboard box. (b) many very miniature elephants and 1 larger elephant stopper like in (a).

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Title: Animal Figurine Set

Date: 1976

Material: ivory; bean

Dimensions: 1.3 x 0.5 x 1.0 cm

Description: (a) is a hollowed out, red bean into which rests a stopper in the form of an ivory elephant. Inside the beans lie approximately 100 very miniature elephants enclosed in cellophane. Enclosed in small cardboard box. (b) many very miniature elephants and 1 larger elephant stopper like in (a).

Subject: Whyte home; households; decorative; miniatures; animal; elephant

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

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0106 a,b

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The Ode to Road: Hill Treed Road

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Date: 1976

Medium: hand-formed acrylic sheet; airbrushed paint

Catalogue Number: SiR.06.09

Description: The piece folds upon itself at a right angle. The upper section is cut in curving lines. From the left rises a section of black road with a yellow line.

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Artist: Robert William Sinclair (1939 – , Canadian)

Title: The Ode to Road: Hill Treed Road

Date: 1976

Medium: hand-formed acrylic sheet; airbrushed paint

Dimensions: 45.5 x 88.8 cm

Description: The piece folds upon itself at a right angle. The upper section is cut in curving lines. From the left rises a section of black road with a yellow line.