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Byron Harmon fonds
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- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of the photographic records and sample materials of Byron Harmon Photos, the photographic business of Byron Harmon and his successors; as well as the personal photographs of Byron Harmon. I. Scenic / commercial, 1907-1975, ca.7600 items. Primary component of series is film and glass…
- Date Range
- [ca.1890-ca.1975]
- Reference Code
- V263
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 263
- Sous-Fonds
- V 263
- Accession Number
- 235, 980, 1549, 1622, 2588, 2656, 2770, 2792, 2895, 3005, 3394, 3423, 3657, 3807, 3824, 3859, 3988, 4028, 4076, 5052, 5181, 5205, 5254, 5381, 6070, 6127, 6587, 6602
- Reference Code
- V263
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Published record
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the Byron Harmon Photos fonds.
- Date Range
- [ca.1890-ca.1975]
- Physical Description
- ca.10,500 photographs (and ca.35 cm) : prints, postcards, negatives, transparencies, motion pictures, sample products
- History / Biographical
- Byron Hill Harmon, 1876-1942, was a professional photographer and businessman at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He was born near Tacoma, Washington, USA and operated a portrait studio there for a time. In 1903, while travelling around the United States and Canada as an itinerant photographer, he decided to settle in Banff and by 1907 had produced enough mountain views to begin selling a line of postcards. Between 1906 and 1913, Harmon was official photographer for the Alpine Club of Canada and made trips in numerous mountain areas, such as the Bugaboos (1910) and Mount Robson (1911, 1913). Harmon personally financed trips into other areas, such as Tonquin Valley (1918) and Lake of the Hanging Glaciers (1920, 1922), producing both still photographs and motion pictures for commercial sale. After his last major expedition in 1924 across Saskatchewan Glacier, through to Maligne Lake and back to Banff by packtrain, Harmon devoted most of his time to photographing scenes along the railway, skiing in the Assiniboine and Skoki regions, and the annual rides and hikes of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. At the same time he managed several businesses, including a drug store, fountain lunch, theatre and book store. In his later years, Harmon spent much time travelling and photographing in other parts of the world. The business, Byron Harmon Photos, was managed successively by his son, Don Harmon, then his grand-daughter, Carole Harmon.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of the photographic records and sample materials of Byron Harmon Photos, the photographic business of Byron Harmon and his successors; as well as the personal photographs of Byron Harmon.
- I. Scenic / commercial, 1907-1975, ca.7600 items. Primary component of series is film and glass negatives, 1907-1942, ca.6500 items. Also includes: postcard negatives and positives and production negatives to ca.1955; original prints; a wide range of sample products, such as postcards, enlargements and framing prints, calendars and viewbooks, mainly by Harmon business, some by other photographers; and lantern slides, ca.1913-192-, pertaining to Columbia Icefield Expedition, mountaineering, mountain landscapes, Indians, wildlife, Canadian Pacific Railway and Asian travel. Scenic / commercial series pertains to annual camps and expeditions of the Alpine Club of Canada in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks, 1907-1913; private movie-making expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks; mountain scenic views, primarily for postcard purposes; Banff events and development; skiing; birds and animals. Includes some material by Don Harmon and Lloyd Harmon, sons of Byron Harmon.
- II. Personal, 189- to 194-, ca.370 items. Includes: family photographs and views received from others; motion picture out-takes pertaining to world travels, 1930s; and 35 mm. transparencies, ca.1940, pertaining mainly to world travels, also mountain and prairie scenics.
- Notes
- For more information on the Byron Harmon photographs, see "Great Days in the Rockies: The Photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906-1934" (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978) or "Byron Harmon, Mountain Photographer" by Carole Harmon and Bart Robinson (Banff: Altitude Publishing, 1992)
- Name Access
- Harmon, Byron
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions on access to originals
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: series description
- selected modern reference prints
- digital images in Images database and in Alberta InSight database
- Related Material
- Byron Harmon postcards can also be found in the Postcard general file (V466)
- Creator
- Harmon, Byron
- Category
- Arts
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Pearl judging [First Nation] costumes on Bow Bridge
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 272.1
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 272.1
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
Images
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Teepees in the distance at Banff Indian Grounds, Banff Indian Days]
- Date Range
- 1916
- 1920-1928
- Reference Code
- V439 / PD - 358
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
2 images
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Edmee Moore Series
- Sous-Fonds
- M307 / V439
- Reference Code
- V439 / PD - 358
- Parallel Title
- "Indian Day"
- Other Title Info
- Parallel title is original title
- Date Range
- 1916
- 1920-1928
- Physical Description
- 1 album page with four photographs : 1 photograph
- Scope & Content
- [Teepees in the distance at Banff Indian Grounds, Banff Indian Days]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Banff Indian Days
- First nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Creator
- [Edmee Moore created the album]
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore, unidentified woman, and two unidentified First Nations men on steps of Moore house]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 250
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 250
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore, unidentified woman, and two unidentified First Nations men on steps of Moore house]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- First nations
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore judging at Banff Indian Days]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 271
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 271
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore judging at Banff Indian Days]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 272
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 272
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 275
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 275
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Pearl Moore at Banff Indian Days]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- First nations
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Peter Whyte, "October Snow" 25 x 30
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 281
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 281
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- Peter Whyte, "October Snow" 25 x 30
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Roland Gissing, "Ghost River Valley" 25 x 30
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 282
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 282
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- Roland Gissing, "Ghost River Valley" 25 x 30
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Bellmore - Browne]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 283
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 283
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Bellmore - Browne]
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Nick de Grandmaison, "Stoney Nakoda" 20 x 25
- Date Range
- 1900 - 1930
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 284
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sous-Fonds
- V439
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 284
- Date Range
- 1900 - 1930
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- Nick de Grandmaison, "Stoney Nakoda" 20 x 25
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Carl Rungius, "Land of Lakes and Forests" 30 x 25
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 285
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 285
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- Carl Rungius, "Land of Lakes and Forests" 30 x 25
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Roland Jackson, "American Widgeon" 20 x 26
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 286
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 286
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- Roland Jackson, "American Widgeon" 20 x 26
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Painting showing tracks in snow with people in distance]
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 288
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Volunteer Activities
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 288
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Painting showing tracks in snow with people in distance]
- Subject Access
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Photograph of statue of bear and cub]
- Date Range
- 1956
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 296
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 296
- Date Range
- 1956
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Photograph of statue of bear and cub]
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Arts
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- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Scope & Content
- [Man and woman on the balcony in the Moore home surrounded by animal heads and buckskin fabric]. Taken by Mrs. Ralph J. Mather.
- Date Range
- 1969
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 297
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
1 image
- Part Of
- Moore family fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- V439
- Series
- Pearl Moore Series
- Sub-Series
- Personal
- Reference Code
- V439 / PA - 297
- Date Range
- 1969
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : print
- Scope & Content
- [Man and woman on the balcony in the Moore home surrounded by animal heads and buckskin fabric]. Taken by Mrs. Ralph J. Mather.
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Arts
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