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... et la Montagne conquit l'Homme : histoire du developpement de l'alpinisme

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1931

Author: Schwartz, Myrtil

Publisher: Paris : Fischbacher

Call Number: G510 S383

Author: Schwartz, Myrtil

Publisher: Paris : Fischbacher

Published Date: 1931

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: G510 S383

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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8a Rassegna Internazionale dell'Editoria di Montagna = 8th International Review of Mountain Publications (1994)

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1994

Publisher: Trento (Italy): Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara

Edition: 22 edizioni

Call Number: Z121 R3

Edition: 22 edizioni

Publisher: Trento (Italy): Centro Servizi Culturali S. Chiara

Published Date: 1994

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: Z121 R3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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11 Rassegna Internatnazionale dell'Editoria di Montagna, 11. Internationale Bergbuchausstellung = 11th review of mountain publications

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1997

Publisher: Trento (Italia) : Festival Internazionale Film della Montagna e dell"Esplorazione

Call Number: ZG510 M64

Publisher: Trento (Italia) : Festival Internazionale Film della Montagna e dell"Esplorazione

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: 207p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Cover title: Montagna libri ...; Text in Italian, French, German and English

Call Number: ZG510 M64

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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50 selected rock climbs in the Ottawa area

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1990

Author: Adamson, Steve

Publisher: Ottawa : Adamson; Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: F1059.5 O9 A3

Author: Adamson, Steve

Publisher: Ottawa : Adamson; Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 1990

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: F1059.5 O9 A3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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75 escaladas selectas en Montserrat

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1996

Author: Ballart, Armand

Publisher: Desnival

Edition: Mini Bilioteca practica

Call Number: G513 M66 1996 Pam

Author: Ballart, Armand

Edition: Mini Bilioteca practica

Publisher: Desnival

Published Date: 1996

Physical Description: 65 pages, ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rock climbing; Caribbean Islands

Notes: Title roughly translates to "75 select climbs in Montserrat"

Accession Number: AC586

Call Number: G513 M66 1996 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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1990 Everest Environmental Expedition : post-expedition report

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1990

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Garbage; Mountaineering; Pollution

Notes: Bob McConnell and Liz Nichol, Expedition Co-Leaders

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Accessories Guitar Accessories

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Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: metal; wood; ivory; plastic

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0008 a-m

Description: A collection of odd guitar accessories. (a) finger pick set (3.4 x 2.0 diam) four metal frames that fit over the finger tip,Y-shaped with the arms of the Y forming an adjustable band that fits around finger, and the stem of the Y passing up over the tip of the finger and down the back halfway to t…

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Title: Accessories Guitar Accessories

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: metal; wood; ivory; plastic

Dimensions: 3.4 cm

Description: A collection of odd guitar accessories. (a) finger pick set (3.4 x 2.0 diam) four metal frames that fit over the finger tip,Y-shaped with the arms of the Y forming an adjustable band that fits around finger, and the stem of the Y passing up over the tip of the finger and down the back halfway to the band, tip is crimped in stiff fold, 3 have solder at the tip to form a longer point. (MFG: Fitrite).(b) finger pick set (2.5 x 1.8 x 2.0) six metal rings that fit over the finger tips, adjustable band has circles cut out along it, flame shaped fingernail rises from band, curling inward slightly, and with cut out circle at middle. (mfg: National) (c) finger pick (2.5 x 1.9 x 2.0) as (b) but without cut out circles (mfg: Artisto) (d) finger picks (3.0 x 1.7 x 1.9) two metal bands that wrap around finger tip, widening near the end, then narrowing to a point that extends off to one side of the finger. (e) finger picks (3.5 x 1.5 x 1.9) two flat ivory bands which curl once around finger tip and extend out to one side in a point. (f) pick (3.2 x 2.3 x .1) small, flat, egg shaped, marbleized, grey plastic, stiff. (mfg: Durro). (g) pick (3.0 x 2.2 x .1) as (f) but brown tortoise shell coloured plastic (mfg: Eureka). (h) pick (2.7 x 1.9 x .1) as (f) but transparent yellowed plastic ?, slightly curled. (i) capo (5.3 x 1.9 x .9) flat metal bar with small hooks at either end to hold tightly coiled spring across the under side, lined underneath bar with cork. (mfg: Elton). j) bridge ? (4.7 x .8 x 1.1) a long, half round, hollow metal bar with six incised rings spaced evenly along the length. (mfg: Kamiki). (k) slides (7.2 x 1.7 diam) two heavy, solid, brass rods (used to slide over strings when playing the guitar Hawaiian style) (1) peg (5.0 x .9 x 2.3) white, cast plastic peg with long shaft and flattened key with finger depression each side, ferrules around top of shaft. (m) bridge (4.7 x 1.4 x 1.9) low, unfinished wood bridge with small dark support perpendicularly across under middle, short legs thicken slightly at base, series of small notches across top, some deliberately cut into wood, some worn in odd places from strings (mfg: Grover).

Subject: Whyte home; households; entertainment; pastime; Annie White; music; accessories; equipment; sound; song

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0008 a-m

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Accessories Guitar Accessories

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Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; plastic

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0009 a-e

Description: A collection of odd, stringed instrument accessories. (a) bridge (5.0 x 1.3 x .5) long, squared, wood, with low legs thicker at base, four shallow notches evenly spaced across top, for ukulele?( b) bridge (4.4 x 1.7 x .6) as (a) but taller and not as long. (c) bridge (2.7 x 2.1 x .3) a small, …

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Title: Accessories Guitar Accessories

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; plastic

Dimensions: 5.0 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm

Description: A collection of odd, stringed instrument accessories. (a) bridge (5.0 x 1.3 x .5) long, squared, wood, with low legs thicker at base, four shallow notches evenly spaced across top, for ukulele?( b) bridge (4.4 x 1.7 x .6) as (a) but taller and not as long. (c) bridge (2.7 x 2.1 x .3) a small, high, yellowed, glass like bridge with arced top, and arch under between legs, curved in at sides, and four shallow notches across top. (d) pegs (15.9 x .9 x 1.9) three plain, wooden tuning pegs with straight, tapering shafts, and simple round flat keys at top with depressions for fingers to grasp, small slit cut across bottom, impressed marks from strings around bottom. (e)pick guard (7.8 x 5.2) small, lyre shaped form cut from a thin sheet of tortoiseshell patterned plastic, two pinholes at stem where broken off from something else (a bracket?).

Subject: Whyte home; households; entertainment; pastime; Annie White; music; accessories; equipment; sound; song;

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0009 a-e

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Account of an embassy to the courts of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1800

Author: Turner, Samuel

Publisher: London : Bulmer

Call Number: DS785 T87 Oversize F

Author: Turner, Samuel

Publisher: London : Bulmer

Published Date: 1800

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: DS785 T87 Oversize F

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Account of Tibet : the travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia...1712-1727 Edited by Filippo de Filippi

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1937

Author: Desideri, Ippolito

Publisher: London : Routledge

Edition: Rev. ed

Call Number: DS785 D4

Author: Desideri, Ippolito

Edition: Rev. ed

Publisher: London : Routledge

Published Date: 1937

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: DS785 D4

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Achievement Plaque

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Date: 1910

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1031

Description: Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia…

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Title: Achievement Plaque

Date: 1910

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 25.3 x 33.6 cm

Description: Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia. shows 2 people in a canoe, wreath along bottom edge.

Subject: sports; summer; boating; Banff Regatta

Credit: Gift of Iva (Mrs. Len) Smith, 1976

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1031

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Aconcagua : a climbing guide

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1994

Author: Secor, R.J

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Call Number: F2851 A2 S4

Author: Secor, R.J

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1994

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Guidebooks

Call Number: F2851 A2 S4

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Aconcagua / recopilacio : Carles Capellas; edicio : Servei General d'Informacio de Muntanya

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1993

Publisher: Sabadell (Spain): S.G.I.M

Edition: 1a. edicio

Call Number: F2851 A2 A2 Pam

Edition: 1a. edicio

Publisher: Sabadell (Spain): S.G.I.M

Published Date: 1993

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: F2851 A2 A2 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Acoustic Guitar

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Date: 1910 – 1930

Material: wood; paper; metal; plastic; steel

Catalogue Number: 104.34.1001 a-d

Description: Martin steel string with case and strings; (a) guitar (96.5 x 34.5 x 10.5); fine hardwood construction, blond face,red/brown body and neck, ebony finger board and bridge base; "French" ivory rim, bridge, string pegs and tuning pegs; small "Mother of Pearl" diamond shaped position marks; silver-co…

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Title: Acoustic Guitar

Date: 1910 – 1930

Material: wood; paper; metal; plastic; steel

Dimensions: 34.5 x 86.5 cm

Description: Martin steel string with case and strings; (a) guitar (96.5 x 34.5 x 10.5); fine hardwood construction, blond face,red/brown body and neck, ebony finger board and bridge base; "French" ivory rim, bridge, string pegs and tuning pegs; small "Mother of Pearl" diamond shaped position marks; silver-coloured plates on side of head with engraving; burned stamp inside of body: "C F Martin & Co Nazarath, PA"; on neck block: "29990"; stamped on head: "Made in USA" plus same as inside body; (b) case: black pressed paper with purple velvet lining; metal fittings; enclosed box in neck area; (c) 3 "Black Diamond String" envelopes; with coiled strings; various used coiled strings (strings removed form guitar) (d) 13 pieces of various musical notations for chords and tunes.