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Stoney Country
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19965
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- photography by Warren Harbeck, Gerald Kaquitts, Tom Snow ; [editor, Warren Harbeck].
- Publisher
- [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication
- Edition
- 2nd ed. (rev).
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7st
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- Edition
- 2nd ed. (rev).
- Publisher
- [Morley, Alberta?] : Stoney Tribe, Dept. of Communication
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 21 x 27 cm
- Abstract
- Pertains to a collection of pictorial works that have been published by the Stoney Tribe in an effort to thank their Creator, as well as honor the joining of old and new tradition. The publication was created using photographs in an effort to show culture, rather than tell of it. The book gives thanks to the Creator, while also representing Indigenous culture as old tradition, and new technology meet. The publication serves as a visual record of Indigenous culture, history and tradition.
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 07.2 St7st
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL is linked to the official website of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation Tribal Administration webpage
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Margaret Shelton, block prints 1936-1984
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20013
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6m
1 website
- Author
- Ainslie, Patricia
- Responsibility
- Patricia Ainslie
- Publisher
- Calgary : Glenbow Museum
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 X 27 cm
- Subjects
- Exhibition catalogue
- Shelton, Margaret
- Subjects
- Water colorists - Canada - Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the history and art work of Margaret Shelton, organized by Patricia Anslie. Her artwork explored and revealed the vitality of the Alberta landscape. The publication was produced in an effort to celebrate and commemorate Shelton, as well as her contribution to the Alberta art landscape. Working primarily with watercolor and block prints, she was a prolific artists and contributed greatly to the printmaking industry in Alberta. The publication pertains mostly to the story and history of Margaret Shelton. Additionally, the publication includes some images of her breathtaking artwork.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements (pg. 5)
- Margaret Shelton (pg. 7)
- Technique (pg. 30)
- Notes and Bibliography (pg. 35)
- Chronology (pg. 36)
- Catalogue Raisonne (pg. 39)
- Accession Number
- 2019. 61
- Call Number
- 06.1 Ai6m
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- URL is linked to the official website for Margaret Shelton
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Paint and circumstance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4544
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Kerr, Illingworth
- Publisher
- Calgary : Jules and Maureen Poscente [et al.]
- Call Number
- 06.1 K46p
1 website
- Author
- Kerr, Illingworth
- Responsibility
- Illingworth Kerr
- Publisher
- Calgary : Jules and Maureen Poscente [et al.]
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 53 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color)
- Abstract
- Pertains to artist Illingsworth Kerr - includes reminisces and illustrations
- ISBN
- 0-9693218-1-3
- Accession Number
- 6705
- Call Number
- 06.1 K46p
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Ilingsworth Kerr gallery website
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Catharine Robb Whyte ; Peter Whyte : a commemorative portfolio
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4614
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Banff : Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- 06 W62
1 website
1 image
- Responsibility
- editor: Jon Whyte
- Publisher
- Banff : Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 1 portfolio
- Abstract
- Pete 'n' Catharine : their story : drawn from diaries, letters and notes : illustrated with their drawings, photographs, cartoons and sketches / selected and annotated by Jon Whyte
- Notes
- Limited edition of three hundred signed, numbered copies
- Accession Number
- 5861
- Call Number
- 06 W62
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- www.whyte.org/commemorative-portfolio
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1988
- Author
- Stirling, Ian
- Guravich, Dan
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor ; The University of Michigan Press
- Call Number
- QL S75 P66
1 website
- Author
- Stirling, Ian
- Guravich, Dan
- Responsibility
- Ian Stirling (author), Dan Guravich (photographer)
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor ; The University of Michigan Press
- Published Date
- 1988
- Physical Description
- 220 pages ; illustrations ; maps
- Subjects
- Bears
- Zoology
- Arctic
- Arctic Regions
- Wildlife
- Abstract
- Pertains to life of polar bears with photographs
- Contents
- Introduction
- The First Polar Bears
- The Original Polar Bear Watchers
- How Do You Study a Polar Bear
- Distribution and Abundance
- Reproduction
- Behavior
- Life and Death
- What Makes a Polar Bear Tick?
- The Polar Bears of Churchill
- Conflicts between Polar Bears and Humans
- Conservation and Environmental Concerns
- The Future
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author and addressed to Margaret Gmoser - dated August 1989
- ISBN
- 0472101005
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- QL S75 P66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Author's profile on Polar Bears International website
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The art of Robert Bateman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20148
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
1 website
- Author
- Derry, Ramsay
- Responsibility
- Ramsay Derry (author), Roger Tory Peterson (introduction)
- Publisher
- Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 178 p. : ill. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Art
- Wildlife
- Bateman, Robert
- Abstract
- Pertains to the art of Robert Bateman
- Contents
- Introduction
- Profile
- Plates and Commentaries
- Sketchbooks
- Appendix
- Notes
- Signed by Ramsay Derry and Robert Bateman
- ISBN
- 0713914335
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- N D47 A78 oversize
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to artist website
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