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- Byron Harmon (Banff, Alberta) 3265
- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 889
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 429
- Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British) 223
- Vaux family (Philadelphia USA) 204
- Harmon, Byron 194
- Whyte, Catharine 184
- Whyte, Peter 142
- Harmon, Byron (Banff, Alberta) 121
- Luxton, Norman 107
- McCowan, Dan 87
- Luxton, Eleanor 84
- Scope & Content
- Three Sisters Mountain and Canadian Pacific Railway line near Canmore
- Date Range
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Reference Code
- V650 / 6603 - PA - 9
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
1 image
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V650
- Reference Code
- V650 / 6603 - PA - 9
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- [between 1890 and 1910]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print, 19 x 24 cm, mounted
- Scope & Content
- Three Sisters Mountain and Canadian Pacific Railway line near Canmore
- Subject Access
- Environment and Nature
- Railways
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Creator
- Unknown
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- 81 personal unidentified photograph prints, which includes images of metal Bow River Bridge (1887-1914), Buffalo Paddock, Brett Sanitarium (1887-1933), Government Museum (built 1903), Alpine Club of Canada Camp, Cave and Basin, Sulphur Mountain weather station?, Bankhead Tipple (1903-1922), various…
- Date Range
- ca. 1915
- Reference Code
- V8 / accn. 2022.15 / PD - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 2022.15
- Reference Code
- V8 / accn. 2022.15 / PD - 1
- GMD
- Album
- Date Range
- ca. 1915
- Physical Description
- Photograph Album : 1 photograph album (81b&w photographs)
- Scope & Content
- 81 personal unidentified photograph prints, which includes images of metal Bow River Bridge (1887-1914), Buffalo Paddock, Brett Sanitarium (1887-1933), Government Museum (built 1903), Alpine Club of Canada Camp, Cave and Basin, Sulphur Mountain weather station?, Bankhead Tipple (1903-1922), various businesses and unidentified people. Photographs are pasted in an album. Album is a suede souvenir album painted with Indigenous portrait on front, and Banff Alta engraved on the back cover.
- Subject Access
- Banff
- Bison
- Bow River Bridge
- Geographic Access
- Banff, Alberta
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Unknown
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Unprocessed
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- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.05
- Description
- Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.
1 image
- Title
- John Brewster
- Date
- c. 1940
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 35; 50.4 x 34.2; 38 cm
- Description
- Head and shoulders portrait of John Brewster as an elderly man. The head is drawn in good detail, full faced, shirt and tie evident, shoulders sketched in lightly. The face is round, hair over ears, otherwise bald, brown eyes, mustache, and amicable look.
- Credit
- Gift of Dorothy Cranstone, Banff, 1983
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.05
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Jim Brewster of Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.03.06
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.06
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.
1 image
- Title
- Jim Brewster of Banff
- Date
- 1935 – 1945
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 76.0 x 56.0 cm
- Description
- A realistic rendering of a head and shoulder portrait of Jim Brewster; a three-quarter view; he has on a light brown hat, blue jacket, white shirt, red tie; streaks of colour in background.
- Subject
- portrait
- male
- portrait: Jim Brewster
- Credit
- Gift of Lubov de Grandmaison, 1990
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.03.06
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- prior to 1935
- Medium
- oil on slate; wood; hardware
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.02.05
- Description
- Mountain landscape with river and rail tracks, bridges. Written at bottom 7th and 8th crossing of the Kicking Horse River. Oil paint on slate slab - very heavy. Provenance and artist unknown, image apparently taken from popular postcard view.
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- prior to 1935
- Medium
- oil on slate; wood; hardware
- Dimensions
- 48.6 x 28.0 cm
- Description
- Mountain landscape with river and rail tracks, bridges. Written at bottom 7th and 8th crossing of the Kicking Horse River. Oil paint on slate slab - very heavy. Provenance and artist unknown, image apparently taken from popular postcard view.
- Subject
- landscape, mountain
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.02.05
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1915 – 1930
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.24
- Description
- A ski jumper, dressed in knickers, sweater, hood, no gloves, is at the ready, knees slightly bent, arms outstretched; the skis have a flattened point. The skis are pointed downwards, center two thirds is on a sloped white base which is on a oval, painted wooden base. The wood is so painted to resem…
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled
- Date
- 1915 – 1930
- Dimensions
- 48.5 x 36.0 x 33.5 cm
- Description
- A ski jumper, dressed in knickers, sweater, hood, no gloves, is at the ready, knees slightly bent, arms outstretched; the skis have a flattened point. The skis are pointed downwards, center two thirds is on a sloped white base which is on a oval, painted wooden base. The wood is so painted to resemble mahogany perhaps. The metal analysis was provided by Olive (Mrs. Charles) Bell.
- Subject
- figure, female
- activity, skiing
- Credit
- Gift of Joe A. Brewster, Banff, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.24
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- The Miser
- Date
- 1910 – 1930
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 21.5 x 17.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.02.02
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1910
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.37
- Description
- A wooden scultpure of a bison.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Buffalo
- Date
- 1910
- Dimensions
- 19.5 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- A wooden scultpure of a bison.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.37
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Mountain Sheep
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.38
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1910
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.38
- Description
- A wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Mountain Sheep
- Date
- 1910
- Dimensions
- 22.0 x 25.5 cm
- Description
- A wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
- Subject
- animal
- mountain sheep
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.38
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Big Horn Sheep
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.40
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 1910
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.40
- Description
- A large wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
1 image
- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Big Horn Sheep
- Date
- 1910
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 29.0 cm
- Description
- A large wooden sculpture of a bighorn sheep.
- Subject
- animal
- mountain sheep
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.40
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Long Time Squirrel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.04.02
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.02
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright s…
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- Title
- Long Time Squirrel
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright symbol is about 6 cm up from the bottom on the left hand side. Under the image in the bottom left corner, written in pencil, “100/1000”. There is a write up that accompanies the print, see narrative.
- Subject
- aboriginal
- man
- Nicolas De Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.02
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Long Time Squirrel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactdgn.04.03
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.03
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing in a folder. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a…
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- Title
- Long Time Squirrel
- Date
- 1938
- Medium
- print on paper
- Dimensions
- 47.0 x 34.5 cm
- Description
- A print reproduction of a pastel drawing in a folder. The drawing is a portrait of an aboriginal man. The man’s black hair is tied into multiple braids and there are feathers at the top of his head. He is wearing many beaded/ braided necklaces. The background is brown and the artist signature and a copyright symbol is about 6 cm up from the bottom on the left hand side. Under the image in the bottom left corner, written in pencil, “99/1000”. Along the bottom left edge of the paper in black print, “© 1979 Bank of Montreal. “LONG TIME SQUIRREL, BLOOD”, Cardston, Alberta, 1938 by N. de Grandmaison”. There is a write up that accompanies the print, see Narrative.
- Subject
- portrait
- Indigenous
- man
- Nicolas de Grandmaison
- Credit
- Gift of Nicolas Jr. de Grandmaison, Vancouver, 2011
- Catalogue Number
- DgN.04.03
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Untitled (Stone Musk Ox)
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.93
- Description
- A muskox carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite. The face and horns are carved in relief. The centre of the ox is raised in a hump. Item measures 6.3 cm heel to nose, 3.0 cm hump to belly.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Stone Musk Ox)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- 1.8 x 6.3 cm
- Description
- A muskox carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite. The face and horns are carved in relief. The centre of the ox is raised in a hump. Item measures 6.3 cm heel to nose, 3.0 cm hump to belly.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.93
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Untitled (Kneeling Stone Hunter)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.94
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.94
- Description
- A kneeling figure carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite. The figure kneels on their right leg, with their left leg raised. The arms are stretched in front of the figure. The figure wears the hood of their jacket. The face of the figure is incised.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Kneeling Stone Hunter)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- 2 x 4.2 cm
- Description
- A kneeling figure carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite. The figure kneels on their right leg, with their left leg raised. The arms are stretched in front of the figure. The figure wears the hood of their jacket. The face of the figure is incised.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.94
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Untitled (Stone figure in parka, seated)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.95
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.95
- Description
- A seated figure sits with a straight back, and knees bent in front. It is carved in a dark grey soapstone, or steatite. The figure is represented with an empty hood on their back which is carved in relief. The figure has an incised face. There are incised markings on the chest of the figure.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Stone figure in parka, seated)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Dimensions
- 2.2 x 3 cm
- Description
- A seated figure sits with a straight back, and knees bent in front. It is carved in a dark grey soapstone, or steatite. The figure is represented with an empty hood on their back which is carved in relief. The figure has an incised face. There are incised markings on the chest of the figure.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.95
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Untitled (Mother and child)
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.96
- Description
- A female figure stands carved ina light grey soapstone, or steatite. Her face is carved and coat is detailed. A baby in a hood on the mother’s back is carved in relief.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Mother and child)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- 2.1 x 3.6 cm
- Description
- A female figure stands carved ina light grey soapstone, or steatite. Her face is carved and coat is detailed. A baby in a hood on the mother’s back is carved in relief.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.96
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Untitled (Seated stone figure)
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.97
- Description
- A seated figure carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite, sits with legs outstretched. The figure has an incised face and wears a pointed hood.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Seated stone figure)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- 2.6 x 3 cm
- Description
- A seated figure carved from a light grey soapstone, or steatite, sits with legs outstretched. The figure has an incised face and wears a pointed hood.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.97
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Untitled (Standing stone figure)
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.98
- Description
- A standing figure carved from a dark grey soapstone, or steatite, holds its arms at its sides. The figure’s coat has a carved, fringed, recto.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Standing stone figure)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Medium
- stone
- Dimensions
- 1.2 x 5 cm
- Description
- A standing figure carved from a dark grey soapstone, or steatite, holds its arms at its sides. The figure’s coat has a carved, fringed, recto.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.98
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Untitled (Model Kudlik)
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.99
- Description
- A model kudlik, or bowl, is carved from a dark grey soapstone, or steatite. The bowl has a shallow lip.
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Model Kudlik)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Dimensions
- 3 x 5.2 cm
- Description
- A model kudlik, or bowl, is carved from a dark grey soapstone, or steatite. The bowl has a shallow lip.
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.99
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Untitled (Model Kudlik)
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactunk.06.100
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1920
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.100
- Description
- A small bowl is carved in a light grey soapstone, or steatite, in a oblong shape. There is crosshatching and a red tint on the recto surface
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- Artist
- Unknown
- Title
- Untitled (Model Kudlik)
- Date
- c. 1920
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 4 cm
- Description
- A small bowl is carved in a light grey soapstone, or steatite, in a oblong shape. There is crosshatching and a red tint on the recto surface
- Credit
- Gift of Hubert E. Green Jr., Banff, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- UnK.06.100
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