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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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- 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.
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.1089
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0197
- Description
- A bowl shaped dish of beaten copper, flat-based. The lid is domed, and its flange fits into the dish body. Top of lid is an enamel medallion bearing an image of a two-masted, square-rigged sailboat on the high seas. "Medallion" is inset into a ridge of copper. Interior of bowl is enamelled in a de…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- metal
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 10.8 cm
- Description
- A bowl shaped dish of beaten copper, flat-based. The lid is domed, and its flange fits into the dish body. Top of lid is an enamel medallion bearing an image of a two-masted, square-rigged sailboat on the high seas. "Medallion" is inset into a ridge of copper. Interior of bowl is enamelled in a deep, almost indigo, blue.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0197
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0383
- Description
- A round, black lacquer box with heavy gold scrollwork around sides and lid with Burmese figure at centre. Lacquer over wickerwork. Shallow black tray sits in deep base, lid fits over lip on base. Sides of box and lid covered with heavy scrolled vine pattern with gold line borders. Heavy scroll bord…
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- Title
- Trinket Box
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 9.5 cm
- Description
- A round, black lacquer box with heavy gold scrollwork around sides and lid with Burmese figure at centre. Lacquer over wickerwork. Shallow black tray sits in deep base, lid fits over lip on base. Sides of box and lid covered with heavy scrolled vine pattern with gold line borders. Heavy scroll border repeated around edge of lid with figure of Burmese man at centre, dressed in tiered headdress and flowing robe, and holding scroll in hand. Contains button collection and various other sewing sundries. Sticker on base: "Made in Burma" and remnants of a paper stamp of some sort.
- Subject
- households
- decorative
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0383
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.04
- Description
- A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 38.0 cm
- Description
- A page full of sketches: a head of a ram, a ram's horn, a bear's head, a running bear, a pawing bear, a kneeling horse, 2 standing horses, one rear view,a bison and an elephant. A flat topped mountain is seen in background, centre right.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.04
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.03
- Description
- A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.3 x 31.0 cm
- Description
- A page full of sketches - a saddled horse, a bison, a long horn and an elephant.
- Subject
- Animal, horse, cow, elephant
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.03
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Untitled [Saddle Horse]
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.01
- Description
- A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this d…
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- Title
- Untitled [Saddle Horse]
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 36.5 cm
- Description
- A sketch of a saddled and bridled horse. The horse is facing to right of picture, his tail is tied up, he is standing in snow. A faint drawing of a log house is in centre background, a buffalo skull is over the door. A circle resembling a compass is in bottom right of picture. The reverse of this drawing has a pen and ink sketch of an airplane, of WW I vintage, the pilot can be seen in the cockpit.
- Subject
- animal
- horse
- architecture
- rural
- log cabin
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.01
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- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.02
- Description
- Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of anot…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 18.3 x 30.9 cm
- Description
- Sketches of a man standing, a man running and a horse's fetlock and hoof on one side of fold; 4 sketches of horses on the other. The reverse on the sheet has two sketches of saddles, the other side of the fold has sketches of horses, one saddled (no bridle) one running, and the head and eye of another.
- Subject
- figure, man
- animal, horse
- Credit
- Gift of Les Peters, Great Falls, USA, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- BeC.03.02
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- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.10
- Description
- A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”
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- Title
- Bill Neish
- Date
- 1936
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Description
- A portrait of a man, facing in three quarter profile to the left. He wears a cowboy hat and a knotted scarf around his neck. Inscribed at the bottom left “Bill Nish Warden”, signed “Glyde” at bottom right. On back “Bow Lake, 1936 with Reg Harvey.”
- Subject
- Bill Neish
- portrait
- warden
- Credit
- Gift of Henry George Glyde, Victoria, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- GyH.03.10
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- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.081
- Description
- Drawing of people on a beach. Small preliminary sketch of man lying down in TRC.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1934
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 23 x 30 cm
- Description
- Drawing of people on a beach. Small preliminary sketch of man lying down in TRC.
- Subject
- beach
- bathing suit
- umbrella
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.081
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- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.347
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a female figure in a nurse’s uniform. The woman wears pillbox hat with a sash of material hanging from it. Her face is not clearly rendered. She stands with her right side to the viewer and holds in her hand a cigarette,Beside this figure is a small square with a hospital scene.…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.4 x 21.2 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a female figure in a nurse’s uniform. The woman wears pillbox hat with a sash of material hanging from it. Her face is not clearly rendered. She stands with her right side to the viewer and holds in her hand a cigarette,Beside this figure is a small square with a hospital scene. Someone appears to be attending to a patient in bed, but the image is very crudely sketched.There is another drawing of what might be a disembodied hand holding a mug just below this hospital scene.Another sketch of a nurse’s head appears below the more finished nurse drawing.
- Subject
- recovery
- medicine
- hospital
- nurse
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.347
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- Date
- 1930 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.365
- Description
- A pencil sketch of two cars whose style appears to date to the 1930s or 1940s. THe sketches are arranged vertically and the top car is rendered more roughly than the bottom car, which appears to have human figures in it.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 21.0 cm
- Description
- A pencil sketch of two cars whose style appears to date to the 1930s or 1940s. THe sketches are arranged vertically and the top car is rendered more roughly than the bottom car, which appears to have human figures in it.
- Subject
- cars
- vehicles
- transportation
- drawing
- Peter Whyte
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.365
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Skiing in Skoki is Grand
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.281
- Description
- Pencil drawing on paper of skiing figures. Image has three sections. Top right is a man skiing downhill. The word SKIING. Left image is of man falling on skis. The phrase AT SKOKI. Third image, in bottom right is man on ground. The phrase IS GRAND.Bottom left. Indistinguishable, semi-erased pencil:…
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- Title
- Skiing in Skoki is Grand
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 13.0 x 10.0 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing on paper of skiing figures. Image has three sections. Top right is a man skiing downhill. The word SKIING. Left image is of man falling on skis. The phrase AT SKOKI. Third image, in bottom right is man on ground. The phrase IS GRAND.Bottom left. Indistinguishable, semi-erased pencil: PLEASE ...[illegible] with an arrow pointing to right side.
- Subject
- skiing, Skoki
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.281
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- Date
- 1930 – 1939
- Medium
- graphite on paper with decorative taped border
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.289
- Description
- Pencil drawing of man in hospital bed and nurse. The man sits up in a bed in the right side of the image with a surprised expression. He looks towards the nurse, who enters the room from the left, pushing a cart that holds many sharp instruments. On the left wall, a mirrored dresser and door is vis…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1939
- Medium
- graphite on paper with decorative taped border
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 45.5 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing of man in hospital bed and nurse. The man sits up in a bed in the right side of the image with a surprised expression. He looks towards the nurse, who enters the room from the left, pushing a cart that holds many sharp instruments. On the left wall, a mirrored dresser and door is visible. To the right of the bed is a night table with various cups sitting on top. Inscription in top right corner: TWENTY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SAWS AND KNIVES MAY HAVE TO BE MANUFACTURED BY MASS PRODUCTION TO REMOVE THE THING WHICH YOU HAD FIRST.verso, in cursive: never lose hope when you fall sick and they don’t know what it is. You may be the [person/primer/premier?], the first joyful victim of a new surgical era. TWENTY DIFFERENT KINDS OF SAWS AND KNIVES MAY HAVE TO BE MANUFACTURED BY MASS PRODUCTION TO REMOVE THE THING WHICH YOU HAD FIRST.Support is framed with tape that is marbled green and dark green
- Subject
- hospital
- nurse
- medical, sickness
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.289
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- Date
- 1930 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.294
- Description
- Various pencil dawaings of figures on rowboats, canoes, and bicycles. Some figures, such as the one on the bicycle appear to be in uniform, whether that be military or postman?. One of the more comical drawings is in the top right corner, where a woman rides in a rowboat called DAISY. She is so hea…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 52.5 x 35.5 cm
- Description
- Various pencil dawaings of figures on rowboats, canoes, and bicycles. Some figures, such as the one on the bicycle appear to be in uniform, whether that be military or postman?. One of the more comical drawings is in the top right corner, where a woman rides in a rowboat called DAISY. She is so heavy that the man rowing is lifted out of the water in the opposite side of the boat. One boat is called DAISY, another canoe is called BABE.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.294
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- Date
- 1939 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.313
- Description
- Rough pencil sketch of a very low angle of a man in a kilt stepping forward while planes fly overhead. The man may be drawn wearing a gas mask. The viewer is positioned close to the ground, as indicated by the disproportionately large feet and tartan socks of the figure. A geographical feature is o…
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- Rough pencil sketch of a very low angle of a man in a kilt stepping forward while planes fly overhead. The man may be drawn wearing a gas mask. The viewer is positioned close to the ground, as indicated by the disproportionately large feet and tartan socks of the figure. A geographical feature is on the left edge. Below and to the right of the figure reads : SCOOT
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.313
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- Date
- 1939 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.314
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a male figure in a kilt making note of labels on a scale/sign. This scale/sign resembles a thermometer but is labeled, in descending order with the following descriptors: GOOD; PRETTY GOOOD; AWFULLLL GOOOOOD; NOT SO BAAAD; OK. The man’s head turns towards the GOOD on the scale …
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939 – 1945
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 16.3 cm
- Description
- A pencil drawing of a male figure in a kilt making note of labels on a scale/sign. This scale/sign resembles a thermometer but is labeled, in descending order with the following descriptors: GOOD; PRETTY GOOOD; AWFULLLL GOOOOOD; NOT SO BAAAD; OK. The man’s head turns towards the GOOD on the scale as he walks along the ground line, which transects the scale.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.314
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- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.324
- Description
- Pencil drawing on paper of battle scene on hills with VIMY monument on middle ground. A figure in quilt lies face down in front of monument and simplified figures are scattered on hill behind him.TLC - BOO!!!!
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 16.1 cm
- Description
- Pencil drawing on paper of battle scene on hills with VIMY monument on middle ground. A figure in quilt lies face down in front of monument and simplified figures are scattered on hill behind him.TLC - BOO!!!!
- Subject
- Vimy Ridge, War, highlander
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.324
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- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.325
- Description
- pencil sketches of four military tanks enclosed in four rectangles. Each scene has different angles of the tank.
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1939 – 1966
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 20.4 cm
- Description
- pencil sketches of four military tanks enclosed in four rectangles. Each scene has different angles of the tank.
- Subject
- war, military, tank, WW2
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.325
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- Date
- 1930 – 1939
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.389
- Description
- 5 men gather in front of rickshaw, men appear to be in Asian dress
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- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1930 – 1939
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 28.3 x 22.1 cm
- Description
- 5 men gather in front of rickshaw, men appear to be in Asian dress
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.03.389
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