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Title Source: *Image was part of the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken in 2014 to identify Stoney people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives. Title from title printed on the postcard along the bottom, underneath the photo.

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Souvenir postcard album, Cuba

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting, livestock, boating scenes, market vendors, community ev…

Date Range: [ca. 1900 - ca. 1910]; 1909

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 4

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Postcard

102 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / E : Travel and home records

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 4

GMD: Album; Postcard

Responsibility: Some items produced by Harris Bros. Co., and Curt Teich & Co.

Date Range: [ca. 1900 - ca. 1910]; 1909

Physical Description: 1 album (101 col. postcards ; 9 x 14 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting, livestock, boating scenes, market vendors, community events, city views, Cuba's 1909 presidential inauguration, tourist attractions and landmarks in Havana, rural villages, and Cuban landscapes.

Notes: Many items are duplicates of postcards in album LUX / II / E / PD - 3

Subject Access: Tourism; Travel; Farmland; Animals; Churches; Memorial; Buildings; Businesses; Commerce; Community events; Transportation; Garden; Boats; Industry; Natural resources; Family and personal life; Environment

Geographic Access: Cuba; Havana

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Related Material: LUX / II / E / PD - 3

Category: Commerce and industry; Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Transportation; Land, settlement and immigration; Natural resources

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Luxton home views, Tunnel Mountain

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 9 photograph prints [including one postcard print] depicting views of the Luxton family home and property in Banff. Postcard print depicts Tunnel Mountain facing the Luxton home [ca.1910?] with a letter to Norman Luxton from Henry William Leacock[?] [Possibly Walter Heacock] on the…

Date Range: [ca.1905-1910]; 1908; [1930-1940]; 1954

Reference Code: LUX / I / D1a / PA - 1 to 9

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

10 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

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

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D1 : Personal and family life

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D1a / PA - 1 to 9

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Responsibility: Some photos attributed to J. Howard. A. Chapman

Date Range: [ca.1905-1910]; 1908; [1930-1940]; 1954

Physical Description: 9 photographs : b&w prints ; 17 x 12 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 9 photograph prints [including one postcard print] depicting views of the Luxton family home and property in Banff. Postcard print depicts Tunnel Mountain facing the Luxton home [ca.1910?] with a letter to Norman Luxton from Henry William Leacock[?] [Possibly Walter Heacock] on the back dated 1954.

Notes: Item LUX/I/D1a/PA-2 possibly produced by George Luxton

Material Details: Item LUX/I/D1a/PA-3 has postage stamp affixed to back side

Name Access: Luxton, George; Luxton, Norman; Leacock, Henry William (Harry)

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Home; Townsite development; Immigration and homesteading; Land use; Settlement; Roads; Mountain; Landscapes

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Tunnel Mountain

Language: English

Category: Family and personal life; Land, settlement and immigration

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Souvenir postcard album, Cuba

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards and one postcard print. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting [including bananas, pineapples an…

Date Range: [ca. 1900 - ca. 1905]; 1904; 1909; 1911

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 3

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print

98 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / E : Travel and home records

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 3

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Some items produced by Harris Bros. Co., and Curt Teich & Co.

Date Range: [ca. 1900 - ca. 1905]; 1904; 1909; 1911

Physical Description: 1 album (96 col. postcards ; 9 x 14 cm and 8 cm x 13.5 cm -- 1 print : b&w postcard ; 8 x 13 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one album of colorized commercial postcards and one postcard print. Content pertains to tourist attractions and communities within Havana and other rural regions of Cuba. Subjects include unidentified local families and individuals, crop harvesting [including bananas, pineapples and cane sugar], livestock, dockyard and wharf scenes, a street carnival and other community events in Havana, city views, Cuba's 1909 presidential inauguration, a mass burial site, cathedrals, landmarks, and botanical gardens. Most items not dated or annotated. Postcard print has personal message addressed to "David" [likely David McDougall] in 1909, and one postcard depicting mass burial site has personal message to David McDougall from Mr. Adam Mackenzie.

Notes: One postcard and b&w postcard print are annotated on back; Many items are duplicates of postcards in album LUX / II / E / PD - 4

Name Access: McDougall, David; Mackenzie, Adam

Subject Access: Tourism; Travel; Farmland; Animals; Churches; Memorial; Buildings; Businesses; Commerce; Community events; Horses; Transportation; Grave; Garden; Boats; Industry; Natural resources; Family and personal life

Geographic Access: Cuba; Havana

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Handle with caution if temporarily removing item[s] from album as corner insert spaces holding postcards may tear easily

Related Material: LUX / II / E / PD - 4

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Commerce and industry; Environment; Natural resources; Transportation; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Bill Olson friends and family photographs

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Part Of: Olson family fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Date Range: 1889-1967

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

37 images

Part Of: Olson family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M97 / V475

Sous-Fonds: V475

Accession Number: 670 ; 1107 ; 1021

Reference Code: V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19

GMD: Postcard; Photograph; Photograph print; Print

Date Range: 1889-1967

Physical Description: 19 prints : b&w and col. ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.

Notes: Some of the people identified in the photos are Bill Kay, Jack Powell, Jack Doe, Fred Day, Charlie Fullhroch, Mac Lennat, Earl Squires, Bob Graham, Larry Foster, Willard Bell, Bush Ashley, Shorty Blasker, Casey Jones, Dan Zakaryk, Pete Finlay, Jon Douglas, Irene Straus, Marie Leong, and more.

Name Access: Olson, Bill; Olson, Irene; McTrowe, Florence

Subject Access: Activities; Biographical; Buffalo; Cave and Basin; Children; Family; Family and personal life; Garden; Home; Leisure; Mount Royal Hotel; Personal and Family Life; Personal and Professional Life; Portrait; War; World War I; WWI

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Winnie Wesley and Arthur Twoyoungmen

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Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of a postcard of two children, Winnie [Winnifred?] Hunter Wesley and Arthur Twoyoungmen, standing side by side dressed in regalia in what appears to be a photography studio. A photographer's mark in the bottom left corner reads [Indigenous] children 511 . The back of the postcard show…

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 14

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Postcard

2 images

Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V804

Sous-Fonds: V804

Accession Number: 1077

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 14

GMD: Postcard

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : print, 8.9 x 13.8 cm

Scope & Content: Item consists of a postcard of two children, Winnie [Winnifred?] Hunter Wesley and Arthur Twoyoungmen, standing side by side dressed in regalia in what appears to be a photography studio. A photographer's mark in the bottom left corner reads [Indigenous] children 511 . The back of the postcard shows it came from Byron Harmon's studio.

Name Access: Wesley, Winnifred; Twoyoungmen, Arthur

Subject Access: Family and personal life; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Portrait; Stoney Nakoda; Recognizing relations

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: English

Related Material: Recognizing Relations number RR 521

Title Source: *Image was part of the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken in 2014 to identify Stoney people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives. Title from annotation on the back of the print written by Catharine Robb Whyte.

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Paul Twoyoungmen's family?

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Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of a postcard of five visible people and a horse - a sixth person on the far right of the photo has been obscured due to a section of the photo torn out.

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 15

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Postcard

2 images

Part Of: Eliza Hunter fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V804

Sous-Fonds: V804

Accession Number: 1077

Reference Code: V804 / PA - 15

GMD: Postcard

Parallel Title: Paul Twoyoungmen's family, older than Eliza

Date Range: [ca. 1900-1950]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : print, 13.1 x 8.6 cm

Scope & Content: Item consists of a postcard of five visible people and a horse - a sixth person on the far right of the photo has been obscured due to a section of the photo torn out.

Name Access: Twoyoungmen, Paul

Subject Access: Family and personal life; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Portrait; Stoney Nakoda; Recognizing relations

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: English

Related Material: Recognizing Relations number RR 522

Title Source: *Image was part of the Recognizing Relations project, an archives initiative undertaken in 2014 to identify Stoney people in photographs held in the Whyte Museum Archives. Parallel title is the annotation on the back of the postcard written by Catharine Robb Whyte.

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