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Photographs of Banff

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads

Date Range: 1916

Reference Code: V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M8 / V8 / S8

Series: V8 / accn 5550

Sous-Fonds: M8

Accession Number: 5550

Reference Code: V8 / accn 5550 / PA - 1 to PA - 6

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: 1916

Physical Description: 6 photographs : negatives

History / Biographical: Tom and Netta Merrills visited Banff, Alberta, Canada on a honeymoon trip in 1916

Scope & Content: File consists of photographs of Banff views, particularly streets, buildings and roads

Name Access: Merrills, Netta; Merrills, Tom

Subject Access: Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Public domain (other restrictions may apply)

Language: Language is English

Creator: Merrills, Netta; Merrills, Tom

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession record

Processing Status: Processed

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Film negatives

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Negatives pertain mainly to explorations, including landscapes, participants, camps and activities; also fauna, flora and Japan. Areas include Fortress Lake, Maligne Valley and Lake, Kootenay Plains, Mount Columbia and Athabasca River

Date Range: [1907-1911]

Reference Code: V527 / NA - 1 to 136

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M79 / V527

Series: II.C. Photographs: negatives

Sous-Fonds: V527

Accession Number: 2764, 5248

Reference Code: V527 / NA - 1 to 136

GMD: Negative

Date Range: [1907-1911]

Physical Description: 136 photographs : negatives; film

Scope & Content: Negatives pertain mainly to explorations, including landscapes, participants, camps and activities; also fauna, flora and Japan. Areas include Fortress Lake, Maligne Valley and Lake, Kootenay Plains, Mount Columbia and Athabasca River

Notes: NA-101: Sky is masked out by a combination of fabric and paintlike substance.

Name Access: Schaffer, Mary; Warren, Billy; Lewis, John Swift; Sharples, Paul; Sharples, Carrie; Moberly, John

Subject Access: Animals; Big Horn Sheep; Bighorn Sheep; Bison; Environment and Nature; Horses; Indigenous Peoples; Japanese; Landscapes; Tourism; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Yoho National Park; British Columbia; Banff; Jasper; Maligne Lake; Mount Robson

Access Restrictions: Access by appointment only

Language: English

Finding Aid: Item list available. Some reference prints are available.

Creator: Mary Schaffer

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: LIST OF NEGATIVES (V527/NA) :; 1 [Mary Schaffer and others on mountain side]. -- 1906; 2,3 [Unidentified mountains and lake]. -- 1906; 4 [Laughing Falls]. -- 1906; 5 [Unidentified mountains and lake]. -- 1906; 6 Valley of the Lakes. -- 1906; 7 Mr. Muggins : [dog]. -- 1906; 8 [Flowers]. -- [1907 or 08]; 9 [Mt. Saskatchewan from Castleguard?]. -- [1907 or 08]; 10 Pinto Lake. -- [1907 or 08]; 11 Wildflowers : [Bow Park]. -- [1907 or 08]; 12 Sun Wapta Canyon. -- [1907 or 08]; 13 Sun Wapta Canyon. -- August 13, [1907 or 08]; 14, 15 Vaux Canyon : [Sunwapta Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]; 16 Sunwapta Canyon. -- August 13, [1907 or 08]; 17 Tete Jaune Cache; 18 [Hoodoos and Cascade River at Anthracite]. -- [1907 or 08]; 19 [Bird]. -- [1907 or 08]; 20 [Packtrain near mountain]. -- [1907 or 08]; 21 Moberly : [John Moberly?] . -- 1908; 22 Lewis John Swift. -- 1908; 23 [Mrs. Swift? and child]. -- 1908; 24 Moberly : [John Moberly?]. -- 1908; 25 [Man on horse on mountain pass]. -- [1907 or 08]; 26 [Billy Warren launching raft on Maligne Lake]. -- [1907 or 08]; 27 Head of Maligne Lake [and view of Mount Mary Vaux]. -- [1907 or 08]; 28 Mount Robson. -- 1908; 29 [Girl with dog at Lake Louise]; 30,31 Athabasca River Valley panorama from the Bump : [Mt. Kitchener]. -- 1908; 32,33 [Panorama from Wilcox Pass?: Mt. Kitchener to Mt. Stutfield, Song Sangen Creek and Snow Dome]. -- 1907?; 34 [View from the Bump - Wilcox Pass and Snow Dome?]. -- 1908; 35-37 Athabasca River Valley panorama. -- 1908; 38-39 Athabasca River Valley panorama. -- 1908; 40-41 [Unidentified mountains]. -- [1907 or 08]. -- #41 is reverse neg of #40; 42 [Fortress Lake]. -- [1907 or 08]; 43 [Unidentified mountain and lake]. -- [1907 or 08]; 44 [Horses by fire]. -- [1907 or 08]; 45 [Horse and rider by Ptarmigan Lake?]. -- [1907 or 08]; 46 [Horse with saddle]. -- [1907 or 08]; 47 [Laughing Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]; 48 [Unidentified mountain scene]. -- [1907 or 08]; 49 [Takakkaw Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]; 50 [Unidentified mountain scene]. -- [1907 or 08]; 51 Castle Mountain. -- [1907 or 08]; 52 Elk. -- [1907 or 08]; 53 Elk. -- 1906; 54-57 Buffalo in animal paddock. -- [1907 or 08]]; 58 [Unidentified cabins at animal paddock, Banff?]. -- [[1907 or 08]]; 59 Wild flowers. -- [1907 or 08]; 60 [Unidentified rock tower]. -- [1907 or 08]; 61 [Japanese lady at table]; 62 [Japanese woman in doorway]; 63 [Japanese woman in garden]; 64 [Japan scene]; 65 Maligne Lake : [camp]; 66 [Schaffer party on raft, Maligne Lake]; 67 Head of Maligne [Lake]; 68 Morning mists on Maligne : [Maligne Lake]; 69 Maligne Valley : [teepee poles]; 70 [People in boat on Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]; 71 Mount Unwin : [Paul Sharples and Carrie Sharples? in boat on Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]; 72 Maligne Lake near Sampson's Narrows; 73 Head of Maligne : [Maligne Lake]; 74,75 [Maligne Lake?]; 76 Sampson Peak : [Sampson Peakand Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]; 77 Sampson at dawn; 78 [Mary Schaffer, Paul Sharples, Carrie Sharples with teepee]. -- [1911]; 79 Shoulder of Charlton : [Paul Sharples in boat]. -- [1911]; 80 The Ramparts; 81 Henry House : [site of Henry House]; 82 [Horses on unidentified pass]; 83 Columbia : [packtrain near Mount Columbia]; 84 Bow Summit; 85 Pyramid Mountain; 86 Wilcox Summit; 87 [Trout hanging from tree]; 88 Mt. Columbia; 89 [Unidentified Indigneous woman and child with teepee]; 90 [Indigenous person with teepee on Kootenay Plains]; 91 [Unidentified mountain - winter scene]; 92 [Forest fire along the Athabasca River]; 93 Moberly's : [packtrain fording Athabasca River]; 94 Moberly's : [three people crossing Athabasca River in dugout canoe]; 95 [Wrecked raft? along river]; 96 Robson; horses grazing : [Mount Robson]; 97 Nashan : [Nashan Peak and Watchtower lake]; 98 [Indigenous people and horses on Kootenay Plains]; 99 [Chaba River?]; 100 [Unidentified mountains]; 101 [Horses on trail beside unidentified river]; 102 [Man and woman blowing up air mattresses]; 103 [Unidentified mountain]; 104 [Mary Schaffer and horses]; 105 Fortress : [Fortress Lake]; 106-109 [Fortress Lake]; 110 [Mount Quincy?]; 111 [Unidentified mountain and lake]; 112 [Unidentified mountain]; 113 [Camp scene]; 114 [Unidentified river]; 115, 116 [Unidentified lake and mountains]; 117 Athabasca : [Mount Athabasca]; 118 [Mount Columbia]; 119 [Unidentified mountains]; 120 [Mount Charlton and Pixie Valley]; 121 [Packhorses on steep trail]; 122 [Unidentified mountains]; 123 [Unidentified lake and mountains]; 124 [Person with horse on edge of gorge]; 125 [Vermilion Lakes]; 126 [Mount Rundle from Vermilion Lakes]; 127 [Moose calves at animal paddock]; 128 [Sheep in slough]; 129 [Woman feeding antelope at animal paddock]; 130 [Woman with moose calves at animal paddock]; 131 [Sheep]; 132 [Mountain sheep]; 133 [Antelope and buffalo at animal paddock]; 134 [Sheep]; 135, 136 [Flowers]

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Glass negatives

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Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Scope & Content: Negatives pertain mainly to flora and explorations. Many mountain and plant views are unidentified. Includes two photographs of the Sampson Beaver family

Date Range: 1905-[ca.1906]

Reference Code: V527 / NG - 1 to 181

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

6 images

Part Of: Mary Schaffer fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M79 / V527

Series: II.C. Photographs: negatives

Sous-Fonds: V527

Accession Number: 275, 2764, 5248

Reference Code: V527 / NG - 1 to 181

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: 1905-[ca.1906]

Physical Description: 181 photographs : negatives; glass

Scope & Content: Negatives pertain mainly to flora and explorations. Many mountain and plant views are unidentified. Includes two photographs of the Sampson Beaver family

Access Restrictions: Access by appointment only

Finding Aid: Item list available. Some reference prints are available.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: This material is presented as originally created, it contains outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Materials in historical collections reflect the attitudes, ideas, and norms of the era and culture in which they were created or collected. Offensive or harmful terms are retained for historical accuracy or to document the issues and social context of a specific time and the attitudes and opinions of the people who created the material. LIST OF NEGATIVES (V527/NG) :; 1 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 2 Mt. Forbes and Lyall Ice Fields from junction of Bear Creek and Saskatchewan River / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 3, 5-7, 9 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 4 Athabasca and Dome Glaciers / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 8 The Beacon in Cataract Valley / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 10 [Mary Schaffer on horse]. -- 1906; 11 Looking south from near Graveyard Flats on the North Saskatchewan River / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 12 [Cones] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 13-16 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 17 [Mary Schaffer on horse]. -- 1906?; 18 Mt. Saskatchewan from overflow lakes on the North Saskatchewan near Rampart Creek / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906?; 19 Look south on the North Fork of the Saskatchewan River / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 20-22 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906?; 23 Billy Warren, right, and [Joe?] Barker, left in camp with fish / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906?; 24,25 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906?; 26,27 Coral Canyon, Cline River area / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906?; 28 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 29 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 30 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer. -- 1906; 31-47 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 48 Primula, Banff / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/10/05; 49 Amelachier florida, Bankhead / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/19/05; 50-53 [Plant]; 54 Pinus albicaulis, Tunnel / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/5/05; 55 Kruhsea Tilingiana, Glacier / Mary Schaffer. -- 5/26/05; 56 Pentstemon conferlus, Banff / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/23/05; 57 Draba, Sulphur Mtn / Mary Schaffer -- 6/22/05; 58 Sheperdia canadensis, Banff / Mary Schaffer. -- 5/31/05; 59 Berberis Aquisulium Field / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/7/05; 60 Colliusia bicolor, Lake Louise / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/11/05; 61 Primula, Banff / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/8/05; 62 Vagnera stellata, Banff / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/9/05; 63-65 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 66 Plant - Dodecatheon / Mary Schaffer; 67 Plant - Picaea alba - Tunnel Mtn / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/9/05; 68 [Statue, Greek?] / Mary Schaffer; 69 [Wall carving] / Mary Schaffer; 70 [Head of statute] / Mary Schaffer; 71 [Statue] / Mary Schaffer; 72 [Sculpture of man] / Mary Schaffer; 73 [Sculpture - boy & goose] / Mary Schaffer; 74,75 [Sculpture] / Mary Schaffer; 76 [Head of statue] / Mary Schaffer; 77 Ledium palustre, L. latifolium : [plant] / Mary Schaffer; 78-82 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 83 Pachystima macrophyllium (Bear Cr.) : [plant] / Mary Schaffer. -- 5/25/05; 84-86 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 87 Draba aurea; Stoney Squaw : [plant] / Mary Schaffer. -- 6/24/05; 88-92 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 93 Vacinium microphyllum : [plant] / Mary Schaffer; 94 Observation Peak & Bow Pass from North? / Mary Schaffer; 95 [Camp scene, Mary Schaffer at left]; 96 [Teepee frame] / Mary Schaffer; 97 [Unidentified mountains] / Mary Schaffer; 98 Mt. Saskatchewan / Mary Schaffer; 99,100 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer; 101,102 [Unidentified mountains and lake] / Mary Schaffer; 103 [Unidentified valley and mountains] / Mary Schaffer; 104 [Train in the mountains] / Mary Schaffer; 105,106 [Unidentified mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer; 107 [Plant] / Mary Schaffer; 108 [Mountain scene] / Mary Schaffer; 109 [Saskatchewan River Valley?]. -- [1906]; 110,111 [Saskatchewan Glacier?]. -- [1906]; 112 [Mary Schaffer on her horse Nibs]; 113 [Teepee at Maligne Lake?]; 114 [Boat on shore of Maligne Lake]; 115,116 [Joe Barker?]; 117,118 [Camp at base of unidentified mountains]; 119 [Camp on shore of unidentified lake]; 120 [Man with pole at edge of lake]; 121 [Man in door of shelter made with trees]; 122 [Teepee at foot of unidentified mountain]; 123 [Camp in burnt timber]; 124 [Sampson Beaver family, 1906]; 125 [Sampson Beaver family]; 126 baby on Kootenai Plains : [Frances Louise Beaver]. -- [1906]; 127-132 [Unidentified mountains]; 133 [Unidentified lake]; 134 [Unidentified river]; 135,136 [Unidentified river and mountains]; 137,138 [Unidentified lake and mountains]; 139 [Map of Canadian Rockies]; 140 [Duck]; 141-155 [Plants - identified and dated]; 156-159 [Plants - identified]; 160-180 [Plants - unidentified]; 181 [Cones]

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Wartime work for the National Film Board of Canada

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 131 black & white negatives of various military training operations, mostly around Ottawa [?] taken by Ron Duke while working for the National Film Board during World War II. Includes landscapes, airplanes, truck convoys, military bases and camps, parades, and group shots in …

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / iii / NA - 01 to 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / iii / NA - 01 to 19

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Physical Description: 131 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 10 x 12.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 131 black & white negatives of various military training operations, mostly around Ottawa [?] taken by Ron Duke while working for the National Film Board during World War II. Includes landscapes, airplanes, truck convoys, military bases and camps, parades, and group shots in various settings - includes multiple negatives per envelope. [1] - [Group of people holding a “Welcome West” sign] [2] - [Military gun manufacture] [3] - [Military plane in flight] [4] - [Military trucks on road – one rolled over in ditch] [5] - [Truck convoy] [6] - [Forest training camp] [7] - [Military plane in flight – dropping bombs?] [8] - [Portraits of men in safety equipment] [9] - [Machinery] [10] - [Men at work in workshops] [11] - [Skiing?] [12] - [Aerial view of forest] [13] - [Deep snow on steps and car] [14] - [People looking out train windows at station] [15] - [Collection of buildings – military base?] [16] - [Group shots of people – mostly men in military uniforms] [17] - [People on military base] [18] - [Military parade] [19] - [Prairie landscape]

Subject Access: Airplanes; Automobiles; Buildings; Camps; Military; War; Winter; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Ontario; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Personal photographs - friends and family

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1944]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / i / NA - 01 to 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / i / NA - 01 to 12

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1944]

Physical Description: 43 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 11.3 x 8 cm or smaller

Subject Access: Activities; Children; Family and personal life; Photography; Portrait

Geographic Access: Ottawa; Ontario; Manitoba; Canada

Language: NA

Title Source: Title based on contents of sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Misc. negatives

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 9 black & white negatives of train tracks in mountains and posed plates with food in personal homes. [1] - [Mountain scenes with train tracks] [2] - [Plates of food in domestic settings]

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / ii / NA - 01 to 02

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V1180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / ii / NA - 01 to 02

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Physical Description: 9 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 11.3 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 9 black & white negatives of train tracks in mountains and posed plates with food in personal homes. [1] - [Mountain scenes with train tracks] [2] - [Plates of food in domestic settings]

Subject Access: Food; Mountains; Trains

Geographic Access: Alberta

Language: NA

Title Source: Title based on sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Z-157. Emerald Lake, includes 10 dollar bill shot

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Yoho National Park BC. Includes view with canoeists

Date Range: [between 1930 and 1980]

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-157

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

1 image

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Series: I.A. Photography : negatives and transparencies / 1.c. Darkroom files : colour II

Sous-Fonds: V500

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-157

GMD: Negative

Date Range: [between 1930 and 1980]

Physical Description: 3 photographs : transparencies, col

Scope & Content: Yoho National Park BC. Includes view with canoeists

Geographic Access: British Columbia

Language: NA

Title Source: original title kept

Processing Status: Processed

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Teepees

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Scope & Content: Banff Indian Days, Banff AB

Date Range: [between 1930 and 1980]

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-546

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

1 image

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Series: I.A. Photography : negatives and transparencies / 1.c. Darkroom files : colour II

Sous-Fonds: V500

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-546

GMD: Negative

Parallel Title: Z-546. Indians & teepees, Kodak series

Other Title Info: Parallel title is original title

Date Range: [between 1930 and 1980]

Physical Description: 7 photographs (6 negatives, 1 transparency) : col

Scope & Content: Banff Indian Days, Banff AB

Geographic Access: Alberta

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Z-563. Assiniboine series

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Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Date Range: [ca.1961]

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-563

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative

2 images

Part Of: Nicholas Morant fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M300 / S20 / V500

Series: I.A. Photography : negatives and transparencies / 1.c. Darkroom files : colour II

Sous-Fonds: V500

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: V500 / A5 / Z-563

GMD: Negative

Date Range: [ca.1961]

Physical Description: 16 photographs (8 negatives, 8 transparencies) : col

Notes: NM notes: 1961; with Willie on grey horse; Assiniboine area, CP dupes (Z-563-A, B); Mount Assiniboine Lodge (Z-563-A. horiz); L.S. horses and riders, Erling Strom at sawhorse (Z-563-B); Mt. Assiniboine with Willie (Z-563-C); Mt. Assiniboine with cabin (Z-563-D vert); Assiniboine from distance, with rider (Z-563-E horiz, long shot)