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White and Curren families papers and photographs
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- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of pers…
- Date Range
- 1869 - 1958
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / III
- Description Level
- 2 / Sous-fonds
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Description Level
- 2 / Sous-fonds
- Fonds Number
- M36 / V683 / S37
- Series
- III. White and Curren families
- Sous-Fonds
- V683
- Accession Number
- 3069
- Reference Code
- M36 / S37 / V683 / III
- Date Range
- 1869 - 1958
- Physical Description
- ca. 2 m of textual records (and 36 oversize items). -- ca.3100 photographs (ca.1800 negatives, ca.1300 prints, 5 albums of ca.400 prints).
- History / Biographical
- The White and Curren families of Banff, Alberta were the maternal and fraternal relatives of Peter Whyte. Dave McIntosh White, 1864- 1940, Peter Whyte's father, came to the Canadian Rockies in 1885 with the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1894 he opened a general merchandise business, the Park Store, in Banff. The success of this business resulted in expansions in 1908-1909 and in 1912-1913. For a short time, Whyte operated a similiar business in Bankhead. White was a long-time friend of the Stoney Nakoda, Annie (Curren) White, 1879-1955, emigrated to Canada from Scotland with her father, John Donaldson Curren, and a brother in 1886. They settled in Anthracite, east of Banff, where J. D. Curren operated a small coal mining business. Annie Curren married Dave White in 1901. Their children, all born in Banff, were Clifford, 1902-1964, Lila, 1903-1961, Peter, 1905-1966, and Dave Jr. (Jackie), 1908-1961. Clifford and Jack worked for the family business, Dave White and Sons.
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of the following series: A. Dave White Sr. papers, 1887- 1942; B. Annie White papers, 1875-1955; C. Dave (Jack) White papers, 1911- 1955; D. Clifford White notebook, ca.1915; E. John D. Curren papers, 1886- 1940; F. White-Curren family photographs, 1885-1953. Papers consist of personal, legal and financial papers; and records of Dave White, General Merchant, Dave White and Sons and White and Bayne Store. Pertains to Stoney Nakoda First Nations, Banff Indian Days, Highland gatherings, buildings, churches, skiing, coal and coal mines and Lake Minnewanka. Photographs consist largely of negatives and prints produced by various members of the White family, including Dave, Annie, Clifford and Jack White, pertaining to the White family members, travels, activities; the Banff-Lake Louise area; Banff events, places and people; winter sports; social events and friends, 1910- 1953, and glass negatives by J. D. Curren pertaining to Curren and White families and activities, Mount Assiniboine pack trip and Bow Valley scenes; ca.1885-1905. Also includes collected prints of family and friends, family businesses and buildings and winter sports, and albums pertaining to White and Curren families, 1885-1919 and Clifford White photographs, 1917-1921.
- Subject Access
- Banff V
- Banff - Events V
- Banff National Park
- CURREN FAMILY
- Stoney Nakoda First Nations
- White, Annie M
- White, Clifford Sr.
- WHITE, DAVE SR.
- White, Jack (Dave White Jr.)
- WHITE FAMILY
- Access Restrictions
- Access to photographs requires permission in advance from the Head Archivist.
- Finding Aid
- Series-level outline available. Electronic database available. Photographs are described at the sub-series level only (printed inventory provides more detail than the computer inventory).
- Related Material
- Consitutes Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds.
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- Forms part of Sous-fonds III of the Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds. Photographs in this section begin with the early family portraits of David McIntosh White taken in New Brunswick and those of Annie Curren White taken in Scotland. The earliest negatives attributable to David and Annie White date ca.1908, or approximately the time they moved to their new home between Lynx Street and Bow Avenue. Most of the negatives from the first two decades of family photography are sized 8.3 x 11 cms., with the exception of what appears to be occasional experimentation with other formats, such as vest pocket and 4 x 5 Graflex, and images generated by other family members, such as J.D. Curren and the White children. This body of photography was undoubtedly initiated through the acquisition of a roll film camera on or about 1908. Judging from subject arrangement and other evidence, including shadow images of the photographer, most White family photography is attributable to Annie Curren White. There are several photographs from the collection showing her holding a camera or photographing family members, while no such photographs exist of Dave White. There can be little doubt, however, that Dave White participated in the photographic process, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1917, when there are numerous photographs of Annie and the children. On family motor trips, which began around 1917 and lasted until ca.1923, Dave and Annie's son Clifford appears to have shared photographic responsibilities. From this period on, Clifford and Annie, either one or the other, are the only family members who do not appear in group photographs. From this it is assumed that Dave White played a very minor roll as family photographer after 1918. Photographs attributable to Peter Whyte begin to appear around 1920, but most of his photography appears to be more personal than of a family record variety. None of the photographs in the early part of the collection have been attributed to Lila or Jack (Dave Jr.) White. After 1923, the point when the White children were grown and beginning to move away from home, Annie White becomes the primary family photographer. In the late 1920s she appears to have experimented with a Graflex camera for a time, but by 1930 had returned to a smaller format roll film camera. She continued to take numerous family photographs, usually group poses of her children and grandchildren, after Dave White's death in 1940 until shortly before her own passing in 1955. Also included in this section of the collection are a number of personal photographs generated by Clifford and Jackie (Dave Jr.) White. Around 1918, Clifford appears to have acquired his own camera which produced a 3 x 5 inch negative, and from that period until ca.1923, he produced many images of activities shared with friends and brothers, including a number of photographs of early ski tours and ski jumping in the Banff area. One album bears Clifford's initials on nearly all photographs, and these images match with many of the 3 x 5 inch negatives found elsewhere in the collection. Photographs attributed to Jackie (Dave Jr.) date from the late 1940s and early 1950s and may have entered the collection prior to the death of Annie White. Much of the dating of this collection from 1908 to 1920 was done by estimating the ages of various White children. Beyond that, the usual techniques were utilized, i.e. identification and dates noted on prints by family members, the depiction of specific historical events, changes in physical and cultural features, model dating of automobiles, reading of license plates, etc.
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[Pack trip album]
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and…
- Date Range
- [ca.1915]
- Reference Code
- V8 / accn 2190 / PD
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V8
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 2190
- Reference Code
- V8 / accn 2190 / PD
- Date Range
- [ca.1915]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (62 prints)
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of a photograph album pertaining to unidentified pack trip to the Red Deer Valley, Big Horn Creek, Molar, Ptarmigan Pass and Deception Pass and Ya-Ha-Tinda areas of Alberta with guides "Tex Vernon Wood, and Bert "Red" Johnson - the two other people on the trip may be A.O. Wheeler and his second wife and former hostess and secretary of the Alpine Club of Canada Banff chapter, Emmaline Savatard.
- Name Access
- Pack trip album
- Subject Access
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Pack trips
- Ya-Ha-Tinda Ranch
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
- Category
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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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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Movie Theatre Lantern Slides
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- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Scope & Content
- File consists of lantern slides used in Banff movie theatre. Includes announcements and advertisements.
- Date Range
- [ca.1915]
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2860 / PS - 1 to PS - 42
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Lantern slide
- Transparency
43 images
- Part Of
- Archives General File Collection
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M8 / V8 / S8
- Series
- Accession Number: 2860
- Sous-Fonds
- V8
- Accession Number
- 2860
- Reference Code
- V8 / 2860 / PS - 1 to PS - 42
- Date Range
- [ca.1915]
- Physical Description
- 42 photographs : b&w and col. slides ; 10 x 8.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- Lantern slides were regularly used in movie theatres into the 1930's to advertise upcoming films, mark intermissions, encourage viewers to visit the conession stand, and provide general announcements. Slides could be provided by the studio with official film images or promotions - more often they were handmade title slides featuring simple images and text.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of lantern slides used in Banff movie theatre. Includes announcements and advertisements.
- Notes
- PS-37 contains typed text on clear celullose between two panes of glass bound with clear tape. The celullose insert is badly discoloured and warped, the text is badly faded. The text reads "BANKHEAD VETERANS CLUB A GENERAL MEETING OF THE MEMBERS WILL BE HELD IN THE CLUB ROOMS RIGHT AFTER THIS SHOW."
- Name Access
- Lux Cinema
- Movie theatre
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- All slides cleaned prior to scanning. Single-pane handwritten slides require delicate cleaning around the text.
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: basic description
- Creator
- Lux Cinema
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Dunsmore Family Photograph Album
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- Part Of
- Fulton Dunsmore fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to Dunsmore family and friends; family life; Banff community life; Banff locations, such as streets, zoo, Cave and Basin; events, including Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival, royal visit, 1919; activities, including fishing, camping, picnicing, dogsledding, snowshoeing, skiing,…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1915-1920]
- Reference Code
- V184 / I / PD - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Fulton Dunsmore fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V184
- Series
- I. Photograph albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V184
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V184 / I / PD - 1
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Date Range
- [ca. 1915-1920]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (433 prints)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to Dunsmore family and friends; family life; Banff community life; Banff locations, such as streets, zoo, Cave and Basin; events, including Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival, royal visit, 1919; activities, including fishing, camping, picnicing, dogsledding, snowshoeing, skiing, ski jumping, canoeing. People include: members of the Paris, Woodworth, White (Whyte), Irwin and Latam families; also Dick Patrick, MacAulay twins, Edwin Young, John Thomson and others. Includes scenic views of Banff, Lake Louise and other Rocky Mountain areas. Most photographs are identified.
- Notes
- Fulton Dunsmore made most of the photographs and assembled the album. Also includes photographs by Tom Dunsmore and other
- Name Access
- Dunsmore, Fulton
- Dunsmore, Margaret
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Banff Zoo
- Boats
- Cave and Basin
- Camping
- Children
- Dogsledding
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Indigenous Peoples
- Mountains
- Skiing
- Ski areas
- Ski jumping
- Snowshoes and snowshoeing
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Access Restrictions
- No photocopying
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The Cookies and Some of the People They Passed
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to photographs of a trip to Europe in 1914 interspersed with typed-text pages telling a story titled "The Cookies and Some of the People They Passed."
- Date Range
- 1914
- Reference Code
- V282 / I / PD - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph print
- Photograph
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V282
- Series
- I. Photograph albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Accession Number
- 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / I / PD - 1
- Date Range
- 1914
- Physical Description
- 1 album : 53 prints, 63 p. text, typewritten.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to photographs of a trip to Europe in 1914 interspersed with typed-text pages telling a story titled "The Cookies and Some of the People They Passed."
- Name Access
- Hinman, Caroline
- Subject Access
- Architecture
- Boats
- Buildings
- European travel
- Family and personal life
- Travel
- Writing
- Geographic Access
- United States of America
- Europe
- Access Restrictions
- Access to original restricted. Microfilm copy available for reference use.
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Summer 1915, 1916. -- 1915, 1916.
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to Hinman camping expedition in the area of Mount Robson to Grand Cache, B.C., 1915. Contains summary page describing 1915 camp. It is unclear as to which portion of album covers 1916 trip. Photographs do not have captions.
- Date Range
- 1915 1916
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 2
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
3 images
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V282
- Series
- I. Photograph albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Accession Number
- 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 2
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Date Range
- 1915 1916
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (393 prints) : 100 p.
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to Hinman camping expedition in the area of Mount Robson to Grand Cache, B.C., 1915. Contains summary page describing 1915 camp. It is unclear as to which portion of album covers 1916 trip. Photographs do not have captions.
- Access Restrictions
- Access to original restricted. Microfilm copy available for reference use.
- Finding Aid
- Summary page available in inventory binder (copy).
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Summer camping 1917. -- 1917.
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to Hinman camping expedition in areas of Whiteman Pass, Spray Lakes, Mount Assiniboine, Simpson Pass, Healy Creek, Mount Edith, Sawback Lake, Panther River, Red Deer Lake, Ptarmigan Valley. Trip ended at Lake Louise. Contains photograph captions and summary page describing camp.
- Date Range
- 1917
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 3
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
3 images
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V282
- Series
- I. Photograph albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Accession Number
- 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 3
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1917
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (276 prints) : 92 p.
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to Hinman camping expedition in areas of Whiteman Pass, Spray Lakes, Mount Assiniboine, Simpson Pass, Healy Creek, Mount Edith, Sawback Lake, Panther River, Red Deer Lake, Ptarmigan Valley. Trip ended at Lake Louise.
- Contains photograph captions and summary page describing camp.
- Access Restrictions
- Access to original restricted. Microfilm copy available for reference use.
- Finding Aid
- Summary page available in inventory (copy).
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- Processed
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Summer camping, 1913, 1923, 1924, 1925. -- 1913, 1923-1925.
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to the following Hinman trips: 1913 trip - Mount Robson ACC camp, Glacier, B.C. area and Yellowstone, U.S.A. (p. 1 to 31); 1923 trip - Healy Creek, Mount Assiniboine, Palliser Pass, Kananaskis Lakes, Kootenay River area, Wolverine and Ottertail Passes, McArthur Passes, to Lake Louise…
- Date Range
- 1913
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 5
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
23 images
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V282
- Series
- I. Photograph albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Accession Number
- 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / PD - 5
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1913
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph album (729 prints) : 148 p., numbered 1 to 74 on one side only.
- Scope & Content
- Album pertains to the following Hinman trips:
- 1913 trip - Mount Robson ACC camp, Glacier, B.C. area and Yellowstone, U.S.A. (p. 1 to 31);
- 1923 trip - Healy Creek, Mount Assiniboine, Palliser Pass, Kananaskis Lakes, Kootenay River area, Wolverine and Ottertail Passes, McArthur Passes, to Lake Louise (p. 32 to 44);
- 1924 trip - Takkakaw Falls, Emerald Lake, Hawes Pass, Freshfield Glacier, Castleguard Meadows, Cataract and White Goat Rivers, Harrison Creek, Cascade River, Lake Minnewanka, ending at Banff (p. 45 to 63);
- 1925 trip - Baker Pass, Siffleur River, Corrall Pass, Maligne Lake, Jasper area, Robson Pass, Shovel Pass, Castleguard Meadows, Bow Pass, Molar Pass to Lake Louise (p. 64 to 74).
- Contains photograph captions and summary page for 1923, 1924 and 1925 camps.
- Access Restrictions
- Access to original restricted. Microfilm copy available for reference use.
- Finding Aid
- Summary pages available in inventory binder (copy).
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- Processed
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Transparencies
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- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Scope & Content
- Transparencies, 35mm, 1946-1960, ca.900 items, travel views from around the world. Includes scenic views from Caroline Hinman trips in the Canadian Rockies; also Banff area views, such as Cascades of Time Gardens; Jasper views and wildlife views. International trips include Guatemala and Africa.
- Date Range
- 1913-1916
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / B / NS -
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Caroline Hinman fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M236 / V282
- Series
- V282 / III: Photographs
- Sous-Fonds
- V282
- Sub-Series
- V282 / III / B: Transparencies
- Accession Number
- 1316, 1933
- Reference Code
- V282 / III / B / NS -
- Date Range
- 1913-1916
- Physical Description
- ca.1000 photographs : transparencies.
- Scope & Content
- Transparencies, 35mm, 1946-1960, ca.900 items, travel views from around the world. Includes scenic views from Caroline Hinman trips in the Canadian Rockies; also Banff area views, such as Cascades of Time Gardens; Jasper views and wildlife views. International trips include Guatemala and Africa.
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed / Unprocessed
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