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Untitled / Dr. Sharples

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: North West Mounted Police?, unknown railway station

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 143

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 143

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: North West Mounted Police?, unknown railway station

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Dr. Sharples (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Dr. Sharples

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Illecillewaet River, Selkirk Mountains?

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 157

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 157

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Illecillewaet River, Selkirk Mountains?

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Creator: Dr. Sharples (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Mount Fay from Consolation Valley, Rocky Mountains

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 135

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 135

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Mount Fay from Consolation Valley, Rocky Mountains

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: Alberta

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Fraser River?, British Columbia

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 138

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 138

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Fraser River?, British Columbia

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: View from Upper Yoho Valley, Rocky Mountains

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 146

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 146

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: View from Upper Yoho Valley, Rocky Mountains

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Mountains and lake, unknown location

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 149

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 149

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Mountains and lake, unknown location

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Natural Bridge A.R.V. / Mary M.Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: On Kicking Horse River, Rocky Mountains

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 150

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 150

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: On Kicking Horse River, Rocky Mountains

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Mountains and lake, unknown location

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 151

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 151

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Mountains and lake, unknown location

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Meadow near Daly Glacier?, Mount Niles in background Rocky Mountains

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 152

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 152

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Meadow near Daly Glacier?, Mount Niles in background; Rocky Mountains

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: Alberta; British Columbia

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Untitled / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Yoho Valley area, Rocky Mountains?

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 154

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 154

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Yoho Valley area, Rocky Mountains?

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Anemone des prairies / Mary M. Vaux

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Pasque flower or prairie crocus

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 164

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 164

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Scope & Content: Pasque flower or prairie crocus

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary M. Vaux (Philadelphia USA)

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Trollius

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 162

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 162

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary Schaffer (Philadelphia, USA) - attributed to

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Claytonia lanceolata

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 163

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 163

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary Schaffer (Philadelphia, USA) - attributed to

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Cypripedium passerinum

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 165

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 165

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary Schaffer (Philadelphia, USA) - attributed to

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Androsace carinata

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 166

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

1 image

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107 / V653

Series: I. Photography

Sub-Series: V. Lantern slides

Reference Code: V653 / PS - 166

GMD: Transparency; Lantern slide

Date Range: [between 1894 and 1912]

Physical Description: 1 transparency : lantern slide

Subject Access: Discovery and Exploration

Creator: Mary Schaffer (Philadelphia, USA) - attributed to

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Vaux family fonds

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two or more series. Series I. Photography, 1893-1913, is processed. Series II. Textual records are processed and consist of six series. Photography series consists of twenty-four sub-series: A. to O. Travel 1893 to Travel 1907; P. to S. Travel 1909 to Travel 1913; T. Travel ge…

Date Range: [after 1855]

Reference Code: M107 / V653

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Map; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 107; V 653

Sous-Fonds: M 107; V 653

Accession Number: 739, 1117, 1118, 1793, 2883, 3236, 3942, 4012, 7202, 7579 (unproc), 7792 (unproc)

Reference Code: M107 / V653

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Map; Private record; Published record

Date Range: [after 1855]

Physical Description: 2924 photographs: 2632 negatives, 167 transparencies, 125 prints. -- 1 photograph album (50 prints). -- ca.2.7 m textual records

History / Biographical: The Vaux family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were photographers, mountaineers and scientists. Mary M. Vaux, 1860-1940, George Vaux Jr., 1863-1927, and William S. Vaux Jr., 1872-1908, were the children of George Vaux (VIII) of Philadelphia. They were all involved in photography in the early 1880s and were members of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. All three were taking photographs when the family made its first trip west in 1885. The first Vaux family photographs of the Canadian mountain west were made in 1887 during a summer trip along the Canadian Pacific Railway to Glacier House in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia in 1887.; The family made frequent visits to the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains over the next two decades to study the Illecillewaet and other glaciers, photograph, paint and climb. George's and Mary's photographic work centred on the mountain landscape, while William's concentrated upon the movement and physical features of glaciers. Due to the size of their large format cameras, the two brothers took most of the photographs during these trips and Mary was responsible for all of the printing. William Vaux died in 1908 and George did not return to the Canadian mountains after 1911; however, Mary Vaux Walcott returned to the region virtually every summer for over forty years. A detailed discussion of their activities is contained in "Legacy In Ice: The Vaux Family and the Canadian Alps," Whyte Foundation, Banff, 1983

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two or more series. Series I. Photography, 1893-1913, is processed. Series II. Textual records are processed and consist of six series.; Photography series consists of twenty-four sub-series: A. to O. Travel 1893 to Travel 1907; P. to S. Travel 1909 to Travel 1913; T. Travel general, 1894?-1912?; U. Prints, 1899-1907; V. Lantern slides, 1900-1909; W. Photograph album, before 1907; X. Textual records, 1893-1910; Y. Damaged Negatives; Z. Mary Schaffer Negatives. Photographic negatives, arranged chronologically, are prominent in the series. Images pertain to landscape studies and scenic views of the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains, especially the Glacier, Yoho and Lake Louise areas; glaciers in the Selkirk and Rocky Mountains, especially Illecillewaet, Asulkan, Yoho and Bow Glaciers; mountain scenes and panorama views in the Selkirks and Rockies; Canadian Pacific Railway in the Selkirks and CPR hotels; Glacier and Field, B.C. and Banff, Alberta and areas; climbing and other mountain activities; United States and Canadian views on trips to the mountains. Negatives include both glass (962 items) and film negatives (1740 items). Textual records are exposure records, original negative envelopes and publications.; Textual series consists of six series: I. Trip Series, II. Correspondence Series, III. Publications Series, IV. George Vaux: Legal and Finance Management Series, V. Photographic Related Material, VI. Other Series (O.S.). Textual records pertain to glacier study, including research papers, maps and publications; William S. Vaux Jr. papers re travels, engineering and architecture, other; George Vaux Jr. writing and other papers; Mary Vaux correspondence and papers re writing and presentations; and other records, 1877, 1912-1913. Textual records also include family travel papers, 1881-1911; George Vaux, Jr. "Glacier" files; correspondence between George Vaux and the Schäffers, 1899-1926; papers of Dr. Charles Schäffer, Mary Schäffer and Schäffer estate, 1855-1927.

Name Access: Schaffer, Charles; Schaffer, Mary; Vaux, George; Vaux, Mary; Vaux, William

Subject Access: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series description; file description for Series I; electronic finding aid for Series I; selected modern reference prints; digital images in Images database and in Alberta InSight database

Related Material: Related by provenance to the Vaux family collection of photographs held by the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Vaux collection of correspondence, documents and graphics held by Special Collections of Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pennsylvania