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Indigenous photographs

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slide portraits and illustrations of material culture of native people in western Canada. Includes Stoney Nakoda and Banff Indian Days activities. Some transparencies are by Byron Harmon and Mary Schaffer. Also includes illustrations and …

Date Range: [ca.1900-192-]

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 669 to 809

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M79 / V527

Series: II.A. Photographs: lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V527

Reference Code: V527 / PS 1 - 669 to 809

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Parallel Title: Native people

Other Title Info: Parallel title is original title

Date Range: [ca.1900-192-]

Physical Description: 141 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Transparencies are hand-coloured and black and white lantern slide portraits and illustrations of material culture of native people in western Canada. Includes Stoney Nakoda and Banff Indian Days activities. Some transparencies are by Byron Harmon and Mary Schaffer. Also includes illustrations and comparative views of American - Indian culture

Finding Aid: Copy prints are available for reference use

Location (Copy): Reference prints are available

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V527 / PS 1 :; #669 - [Children's drawings of Indigenous people]; #670 - Camping circle at the time of the Sundance [children's drawings of Indigenous people]; #671 - [Children's drawing Indigenous people - Sundance ceremony]; #672 - [Children's drawing Indigenous people - Sundance ceremony]; #673 - [Children's drawing Indigenous People - Sundance ceremony]; #674 - [Indigenous People gathered around Sundance lodge]; #675 - [Illustration of Indigenous ceremony - Mary Irvin Wright]; #676 – Indigenous People at Windermere; #677 - Maligne Canyon Jasper National Park [Indigenous in ceremonial costume]; #678 - [Unidentified church and cemetery]; #679 - [Portrait of Indigenous man] / [Byron Harmon]; #680 - [Portrait of Stoney (John Hunter?)] / [Byron Harmon]; #681 - [Portrait of Indigenous man] / [Byron Harmon]; #682 - [Portrait of Stoney Nakoda Tom and John Chiniquay]; #683 - Indian Days Banff [Stoney Indigenous camp at foot of Cascade Mtn.]; #684 - [Stoney Indigenous child on horseback]; #685 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #686 – [Indigenous people] in Banff National Park; #687 - [Joshua and William Twin on horseback at Banff Springs Hotel]; #688 - Putting up branches around Sundance Lodge - at Morley; #689 - [Indigenous camp at foot of Cascade Mountain Banff Indian days]; #690 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #691 - Prairie Chicken Dance [Banff Indian days]; #692 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #693 - [Portrait of Indigenous woman]; #694 - [Indigenous dancers at Banff Indian days]; #695 - [Indigenous man dancing]; #696 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #697 - [Group of Indigenous people in ceremonial dress]; #698 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #699 - Indigenous Tepees, Banff National Park; #700 - [Sundance ceremony]; #701 - [Decorated tepee]; #702 - [Illustrated Indigenous garment]; #703 - [Decorated Indigenous tepee]; #704 - [Group of Stoney Nakoda at Kootenay Plains in winter]; #705 - [Indigenous woman with papoose]; #706 - [Illustration of cairn and buffalo skull]; #707 - [Illustration of arrow quivers]; #708 - [Illustration of Indigenous pipes]; #709 - [Illustration of decorated Indigenous shirt]; #710 - [Illustration of pictographs]; #711 - Thunder Bird Stone, Kamsack, Sask.; #712 - [Illustration comparing mounted knights with Indigenous warriors]; #713 - [Children's drawing of Indigenous ceremony]; #714 - [Illustration of Indigenous thinking of buffalo]; #715 - [Illustrated buffalo hide]; #716 - [Decorated Indigenous carry bags]; #717 - [Children's drawings] Battle of Little Bighorn Custer's Dead Cavalry; #718 - [Indigenous design]; #719 - [Painting of group of Indigenous people gambling] Mary Irvin Wright; #720 - [Thunderbird design]; #721 - [Painting of missionary preaching to Indigenous people]; #722 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #723 - Walking Buffalo - Stony Indigenous; #724 - [Indigenous woman tanning buffalo hide] / [Byron Harmon]; #725 - [Indigenous man]; #726 - [Illustration of Indigenous frightening buffalo with blanket]; #727 - Old Braves Society; #728 - Two Indigenous Travois, Peter Year [Ear] & John Hunter; #729 - Old Singers in Sun Dance. Black Feather Society. Includes: l. Black Eagle 2. Peace Maker 3. The Fox 4. Little Person 5. Wolf Carrier 6. N. Axe 7. Not Good.; #730 - [Painting of Indigenous people gambling by Mary Irvin Wright]; #731 - [Indigenous woman with papoose]; #732 - Indigenous Guide (Joe Healy); #733 - [Indigenous man wearing treaty medal]; #734 - [Indigenous man]; #735 - [Sunset on unidentified mountain]; #736 - [Painting of Indigenous ceremony by Mary Irvin Wright]; #737 - [Indigenous man]; #738 - Buffalo - a holdup 1869; #739 - Group of Eskimos at Douglas Harbour Hudson Strait; #740 - [Group of five Indigenous men]; #741 - Point Hope, Alaska. Eskimo kyak; #742 - [Indigenous wearing mask and blanket]; #743 - [Peter Whyte painting Indigenous portrait]; #744 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #745 - [Indigenous ploughing field with horses]; #746 - [Indigenous woman cooking on fire] / [Byron Harmon]; #747 - Indigenous Grave near Tete Jaune; #748 - [Stagecoach]; #749 - [Illustration of Indigenous people attacking wagon train]; #750 - [Painting of Indigenous person killed in attack on camp] Mary Irvin Wright; #751 - [Children's drawing of Indigenous people]; #752 - [Illustration - Norsemen fighting Indigenous people]; #753 - [Indigenous man wearing medal]; #754 - [Two mounted Indigenous men]; #755 - Chief Piepot [Piapot]; #756 - [Stoney Indigenous drummers and dancers]; #757 - [Indigenous man dressed in blanket coat]; #758 - [Illustration - Indigenous tending sick man]; #759 - [Indigenous woman beside tepee]; #760 - [Painting of Indigenous being made a brave by Mary Chapman]; #761 - [Painting of Indigenous ceremony]; #762 - [Mount Rundle and Douglas fir]; #763 - [Group of Indigenous men]; #764 - [Drawing of man on birchbark]; #765 - Superior Aspect of Cranium 1, From Huarochiri; #766 - [Illustration of Indigenous in hide dwelling]; #767 - Anterior Aspect of Cranium 9, From Huarochiri; #768 - [Indigenous man]; #769 - [Drawing of man with arrow in him on birchbark]; #770 - [Portrait of Indigenous woman]; #771 - [Indigenous man and woman on horseback]; #772 - [Indigenous trading with white men]; #773 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #774 - [Indigenous family with travois]; #775 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #776 - [Necklace made from human fingers]; #777 - [Illustration of scalp locks]; #778 - [Illustration of scalp shirt]; #779, 780 - [Illustration of Dakota war feather designs]; #781 - The parade on horses before dance takes place; #782 - [Line of Indigenous men]; #783 - [Group of Indigenous men]; #784 - General view of Indigenous encampment at Morley reserve, getting ready to celebrate Sun dance.; #785 - [Indigenous camp]; #786 - [Drawing of bird]; #787 - [Willow sweatlodge]; #788 - [Indigenous smoking pipe]; #789 - [Illustration of Dakota war feather design]; #790, 791 - [Illustration of Indigenous platform burial ceremony]; #792, 793 - [Illustration of Indigenous platform burials]; #794 - [Indigenous burial ground]; #795 - Dakota Scaffold Burial; #796 - Grave Posts; #797 - [Illustration of Coast Indigenous graves]; #798 - [Indigenous tepee burial] (798); #800 - [Indigenous tree burial]; #801, 802 - [Indigenous burial box]; #803 - [Indigenous burial house]; #804 - [Indigenous burial boxes]; #805 - [Indigenous woman with child]; #806 - [Portrait of Indigenous man]; #807 - [Indigenous camp at Banff Indian days]; #808 - [Line of Indigenous men]; #809 - [Sundance Lodge]

Processing Status: Processed

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Unnumbered lantern slides

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Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mounta…

Date Range: 1885-[ca.1920]

Reference Code: V368 / PS 2 - 1 to 535

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

8 images

Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

Fonds Number: V368

Series: II.B. Tom Lonsdale lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V368

Reference Code: V368 / PS 2 - 1 to 535

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1885-[ca.1920]

Physical Description: 535 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mountain landscape; mountaineering; trains; hotels and camps; flowers and wildlife; CPR hotels across Canada; ships

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V368 / PS 2 :; 1 - 54 Mountains; 55 - 79 Glaciers; 80 - 118 Rivers and Falls; 119 - 175 Lakes; 176 - 213 Flowers, purple/blue/pink; 214 - 250 Flowers, white; 251 - 263 Flowers, yellow; 264 - 282 Birds; 283 - 303 Bears; 304 - 311 Small mammals; 312 - 318 Deer; 319 - 323 Elk; 324 - 328 Moose / antelope; 329 - 332 Buffalo; 333 - 337 Mountain sheep; 338 - 345 Mountain goats; 346 - 394 Roads, structures; 395 - 405 Indians; 406 - 416 Banff townsite; 417 - 422 Banff Winter Carnival; 423 - 437 Banff Springs Hotel and golf course; 438 - 442 Camps; 443 - 459 Mountaineering and hiking; 460 - 466 Outfitting; 467 - 472 Dogsledding; 473 - 476 Skiing; 477 - 526 C.P.R.; 527 - 535 Maps

Processing Status: Processed

Images

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General

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Slides pertain to wildlife and mountains and mountaineering. Includes numbered and unnumbered slides

Date Range: [ca.1900-ca.1920]

Reference Code: V527 / PS 4 - 1 to 15

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: II.A. Photographs: lantern slides

Accession Number: 2685

Reference Code: V527 / PS 4 - 1 to 15

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Transparency

Date Range: [ca.1900-ca.1920]

Physical Description: 15 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Slides pertain to wildlife and mountains and mountaineering. Includes numbered and unnumbered slides

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

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Maps

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Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of two lantern slide photographs of western and eastern Canadian national parks maps.

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 231 and 232

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Map

Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M39; V756

Series: V756 / III : Personal and family records

Sous-Fonds: V756

Sub-Series: V756 / III / A : Travel and mountain expeditions

Accession Number: 6504

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 231 and 232

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide; Map

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 2 photographs : lantern slides

Scope & Content: File consists of two lantern slide photographs of western and eastern Canadian national parks maps.

Material Details: Lantern slides are hand-coloured

Subject Access: Map; Geography; National parks and reserves; Travel

Geographic Access: Canada

Access Restrictions: Fragile - restrictions may apply

Language: N/A

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Wildlife

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Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slide photographs pertaining to various wildlife, including: bighorn sheep, mountain goat, caribou and deer; bison, elk, antelope and moose in Buffalo Park, Wainwright; black bear, beaver, hoary marmot, moose and lynx; ptarmigan and whiskey jack; bull trout, cutthroat trout…

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 233 to 261

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M39; V756

Series: V756 / III : Personal and family records

Sous-Fonds: V756

Sub-Series: V756 / III / A : Travel and mountain expeditions

Accession Number: 6504

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 233 to 261

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Responsibility: Some photographs issued by Department of the Interior Natural Resources Intelligence Branch

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 28 photographs : lantern slides

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slide photographs pertaining to various wildlife, including: bighorn sheep, mountain goat, caribou and deer; bison, elk, antelope and moose in Buffalo Park, Wainwright; black bear, beaver, hoary marmot, moose and lynx; ptarmigan and whiskey jack; bull trout, cutthroat trout and lake trout; and spider webs.

Notes: Some items are captioned

Material Details: Lantern slides are mostly hand-coloured, some b&w

Subject Access: Wildlife; Environment and Nature; Animals; Bison; Moose; Bears; Mountain Goat; Fish; Bighorn Sheep; Birds; Parks

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Wainwright

Access Restrictions: Fragile- restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Flora

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Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slide photographs pertaining to wildflowers of western Canada; and wildflowers and alpine meadows, including some located near Mount Rainier, Washington.

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 262 to 284

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M39; V756

Series: V756 / III : Personal and family records

Sous-Fonds: V756

Sub-Series: V756 / III / A : Travel and mountain expeditions

Accession Number: 6504

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 262 to 284

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Responsibility: Views of Mount Rainier area produced by Asahel Curtis of Seattle, Washington

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 23 photographs : lantern slides

Scope & Content: File consists of lantern slide photographs pertaining to wildflowers of western Canada; and wildflowers and alpine meadows, including some located near Mount Rainier, Washington.

Notes: Some items are captioned

Material Details: Some items are hand-coloured, some b&w

Subject Access: Environment; Environment and Nature; Flowers; Landscapes

Geographic Access: Canada; United States of America; Washington; Mount Rainier National Park

Access Restrictions: Fragile- restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Bison hunting

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Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of copy photographs pertaining to indigenous hunting practices and the decline of bison populations in North America, as well as a portrait of Michel Pablo.

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 285 to 295

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M39; V756

Series: V756 / III : Personal and family records

Sous-Fonds: V756

Sub-Series: V756 / III / A : Travel and mountain expeditions

Accession Number: 6504

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 285 to 295

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 11 photographs : lantern slides

Scope & Content: File consists of copy photographs pertaining to indigenous hunting practices and the decline of bison populations in North America, as well as a portrait of Michel Pablo.

Notes: Most items in file have captions

Material Details: Lantern slides are mostly hand-coloured, some b&w

Subject Access: Bison; Animals; Hunting; Indigenous Peoples; Wildlife; Wildlife fatalities

Geographic Access: Canada; United States of America

Access Restrictions: Fragile- restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Indigenous Peoples; Natural resources

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Canadian scenes

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Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 20 lantern slide photographs depicting scenes in Victoria, Vancouver and vicinity in British Columbia; Edmonton, Calgary and vicinity in Alberta; Regina and other regions in Saskatchewan; Winnipeg in Manitoba; and shipping activity on the Great Lakes.

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 312 to 331

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Part Of: Malcolm Geddes fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M39; V756

Series: V756 / III : Personal and family records

Sous-Fonds: V756

Sub-Series: V756 / III / A : Travel and mountain expeditions

Accession Number: 6504

Reference Code: V756 / III / A / PS - 312 to 331

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Responsibility: Most images in file issued by Department of the Interior Natural Resources Intelligence Branch

Date Range: [ca.1925]

Physical Description: 20 photographs : lantern slides

Scope & Content: File consists of 20 lantern slide photographs depicting scenes in Victoria, Vancouver and vicinity in British Columbia; Edmonton, Calgary and vicinity in Alberta; Regina and other regions in Saskatchewan; Winnipeg in Manitoba; and shipping activity on the Great Lakes.

Notes: Most items in file are captioned

Material Details: Items in file are hand-coloured

Subject Access: Scenery; Ship; Transportation; Travel; Communities

Geographic Access: Canada; British Columbia; Vancouver; Victoria; Alberta; Edmonton; Calgary; Saskatchewan; Regina; Manitoba; Winnipeg; Great Lakes