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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 327 pages

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

Subjects: Exploration; Mountaineering; Alpine Club (Great Britain); Expeditions; Switzerland

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Collection: Archives Library

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Camera

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Date: 1949 – 1990

Material: metal; leather; glass;

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0130

Description: A Linhof Technika 4x5 metal camera. The front panel folds down and has the option to extend beyond 90 degrees - the lens plate mount slides out on tracks and can be adjusted by two gears, extending the bellows. The camera has a Technika Xenar 1:4,5 / 150 lens mounted. The back of the camera also fo…

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Title: Camera

Date: 1949 – 1990

Material: metal; leather; glass;

Dimensions: 17.7 x 20.5 x 10.2 cm

Description: A Linhof Technika 4x5 metal camera. The front panel folds down and has the option to extend beyond 90 degrees - the lens plate mount slides out on tracks and can be adjusted by two gears, extending the bellows. The camera has a Technika Xenar 1:4,5 / 150 lens mounted. The back of the camera also folds down to show the exposure plate inside the main compartment - on the panel that folds down is some kind of leather hood and a depth of field table printed onto the panel. The main compartment of the camera has a leather handle on the left-hand side, a view-finder and mount for a flash on the right-hand side, another attachment mount and a circular level on the top, and a hole in the bottom where it can be fixed to a tripod - there is a second tripod mount in the front panel.

Subject: Nicholas Morant; photography; camera;

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0130

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Camera

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Date: 1889 – 1945

Material: metal; glass; leather;

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0181

Description: Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout…

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Title: Camera

Date: 1889 – 1945

Material: metal; glass; leather;

Dimensions: 19.7 x 20.0 x 14.4 cm

Description: Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout allow different panels in the camera to open - three holes along the bottom [one on the body of the camera and two on the fold-down lens plate] allow the camera to be mounted on a tripod.

Subject: Crosby family; Abegweit; cameras; photography;

Credit: Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0181

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Canadian cadences

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

Published Date: 1949

Author: Murray Gibbon, John

Publisher: Toronto : The Ryerson Press

Call Number: 05.1 M96t

Author: Murray Gibbon, John

Publisher: Toronto : The Ryerson Press

Published Date: 1949

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

Series: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books

Subjects: Poetry

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05.1 M96t

Collection: Archives Library

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Douglas of the fir : a biography of David Douglas botanist

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

Published Date: 1947

Author: George Harvey, Athelstan

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press

Call Number: 04.1 H26d

Author: George Harvey, Athelstan

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press

Published Date: 1947

Physical Description: x, 290 pages illustrations, portraits, maps 23 cm

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

Subjects: Botany; Science; Travel; Canada; Upper Canada; Columbia River

Contents: Scotland ; The Horticultural Society ; United States and Upper Canada ; First Great Adventure ; Columbia River Region ; With Chief Tha-a-muxi ; Up the Columbia to Kettle Falls ; The Blue Mountains ; In Search of the Sugar Pine ; Homeward by Hudson's Bay Express ; Putting Mountains on the Map ; Fame and its Aftermath ; Second Great Adventure ; California ; Third Visit to the Columbia ; Ill-Fated Journey ; Flakes of Gold ; Hawaii and its Volcanoes ; Last Journey ; In Tribute

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 04.1 H26d

Collection: Archives Library

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The Group of Seven : art for a nation

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

Published Date: 1995

Author: Hill, Charles C.

Publisher: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart

Call Number: 06.1 H55t

Author: Hill, Charles C.

Publisher: Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada ; Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart

Published Date: 1995

Physical Description: 374 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm

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

Subjects: Group of Seven; History-Canada; Artists

ISBN: 077106716X

Accession Number: 2022.27

Call Number: 06.1 H55t

Collection: Archives Library

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Matchbox Holder

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Date: 1940 – 1960

Material: metal; tin;

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0596

Description: Metal wall-mounted matchbox holder with an opening at the top and another that curves up from the bottom so that boxes can be filled from the top and funnel through to the lower opening. Printed on the front in blue inside a zig-zag border is “CASH OR CREDIT AT MURDOCH’S Staple and Fancy GROCERIES …

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Title: Matchbox Holder

Date: 1940 – 1960

Material: metal; tin;

Dimensions: 14.5 x 7.0 x 7.1 cm

Description: Metal wall-mounted matchbox holder with an opening at the top and another that curves up from the bottom so that boxes can be filled from the top and funnel through to the lower opening. Printed on the front in blue inside a zig-zag border is “CASH OR CREDIT AT MURDOCH’S Staple and Fancy GROCERIES and PRODUCE Telephone 129 BANFF, ALBERTA.”

Subject: Crosby family; Abegweit; hosehold accessories; Murdoch’s Grocery

Credit: Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: 102.04.0596

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The mountain

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

Published Date: 1886

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Published Date: 1886

Physical Description: 260 pages

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

Subjects: Switzerland; Europe; Alps; Mountaineering; Glaciers; Nature

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Collection: Archives Library

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Mushrooms of Western Canada

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

Published Date: 1991; 2021

Author: Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.

Publisher: Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing

Call Number: 04.1 Sch1m 1991; 04.1 Sch1m 2021

Author: Schalkwijk-Barendsen, Helen M.E.

Publisher: Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing

Published Date: 1991; 2021

Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

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

Subjects: Mushrooms; Guidebook; Identification; Western Canada; Botany; Plants; Science; Illustrations

Contents: Introduction -- Illustrated key to fruiting bodies -- Classification overview -- Keys to colour illustrations -- Colour illustrations -- Species descriptions.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0919433472

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 04.1 Sch1m 1991; 04.1 Sch1m 2021

Collection: Archives Library

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The Norton book of nature writing

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

Published Date: 1990

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton

Call Number: 05.5 F49t

Responsibility: Edited by Robert Finch and John Elder.

Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 921 pages ; 24 cm

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

Subjects: Nature; Literature; Natural history; Naturalists; Travel; Biographies

Abstract: A comprehensive collection of the many voices of nature writing which have flourished in England and America over the last two hundred years. Includes 125 selections by 94 writers.

Contents: From "The natural history and antiquities of Selborne" / Gilbert White -- From "Letters from an American farmer"; from "Sketches of eighteenth century America" / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur -- From "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida" / William Bartram -- From "American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States" / Alexander Wilson -- From "The journal of a naturalist" / John Leonard Knapp -- From "Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth" / Dorothy Wordsworth -- From "Anima Poetae" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- From "Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles" / Charles Waterton. From "A tour on the prairies" / Washington Irving -- From "Ornithological biography" / John James Audubon -- From "The natural world"; from "The natural history prose writings of John Clare" / John Clare -- From "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians" / George Catlin -- From "Nature"; from "The journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- From "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"; from "On the origin of species by means of natural selection"; from "The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex:"/ Charles Darwin -- From "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers"; From "Walden : or, life in the woods"; "Walking"; from "The Maine woods"; from "Journals" / Henry David Thoreau. From "Glaucus; or, the wonders of the shore" / Charles Kingsley -- From "Moby-Dick; or, the whale" / Herman Melville -- From "Modern painters" / John Ruskin -- From "Specimen days and collect" / Walt Whitman -- From "The life of the grasshopper" / Jean Henri Fabre -- From "The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise" / Alfred Russel Wallace -- From "Exploration of the Colorado River of the west and its tributaries" / John Wesley Powell -- From "Life on the Mississippi" / Samuel Clemens -- "In Mammoth Cave"; "The gospel of nature" / John Burroughs -- "A wind-storm in the forests"; "The water-ouzel" / John Muir -- "My friend the pig"; from "Idle days in Patagonia"; from "Birds and man"; from "Afoot in England"; from "A traveller in little things" / W.H. Hudson. From "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" / Clarence King -- From "The American scene" / Henry James -- From "Notebooks and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins" / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- "Out of doors in February"; "Absence of design in nature" / Richard Jefferies -- From "The land of little rain" / Mary Austin -- From "The south country" / Edward Thomas -- From "N by E" / Rockwell Kent -- "The death of the moth" / Virginia Woolf -- From "Out of Africa" / Isak Dinesen -- "Flowery Tuscany" / D.H. Lawrence -- From "The outermost house : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod" / Henry Beston -- From "A Sand County almanac" / Aldo Leopold -- "Two lives" / Gustav Eckstein -- "Love in the desert"; "The colloid and the crystal" / Joseph Wood Krutch -- From "An almanac for moderns" / Donald Culross Peattie -- "Northern lights" / Sigurd Olson -- "The lost woods"; "The Selborne Nightingale" / Edwin Way Teale. "A slight sound at evening" / E.B. White -- "The ancient people and the newly come" / Meridel LeSueur -- From "The wooing of earth" / Rene Dubos -- From "A river runs through it" / Norman Maclean -- From "The grapes of wrath"; from "The log from the Sea of Cortez" / John Steinbeck -- "Some thoughts on the common toad" / George Orwell -- From "The heart of the hunter" / Laurens Van Der Post -- "The snakes are about" / T.H. White -- From "The edge of the sea" / Rachel Carson -- "The judgment of the birds"; "The star thrower" / Loren Eiseley -- From "The windward road" / Archie Carr -- "Glen Canyon Submersus"; "Coda : wilderness letter" / Wallace Stegner -- From "A land" / Jacquetta Hawkes -- "Antaeus in Manhattan"; "Death in the open"; "The world's biggest membrane"; "The Tucson Zoo" / Lewis Thomas. From "Ring of bright water" / Gavin Maxwell -- From "The run"; from "In defense of nature" / John Hay -- "Rain and rhinoceros" / Thomas Merton -- "From "Goodbye to a river" / John Graves -- From "Beautiful swimmers : watermen, crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay" / William Warner -- From "Never cry wolf"; from "People of the deer" / Farley Mowat -- "Moments and journey" / John Haines -- From "The mysterious lands" / Ann Haymond Zwinger -- From "The Peregrine" / J.A. Baker -- From "The tree" / John Fowles -- From "The secret islands" / Franklin Russell -- From "Desert solitaire"' "The great American desert" / Edward Abbey -- From "The tree where man was born"; from "The wind birds" / Peter Matthiessen -- "Skin" / Richard Selzer -- "A very warm mountain" / Ursula K. Le Guin -- From "Biophilia" / Edward O. Wilson. From "Coming into the country"; "Under the snow" / John McPhee -- From "The hunt" / John G. Mitchell -- "Hailing the elusory mountain lion"; "Thoughts on returning to the city after five months on a mountain where the wolves howled" / Edward Hoagland -- "Spring rain"; "Eclipse" / John Updike -- "An entrance to the woods" / Wendell Berry -- From "The way to Rainy Mountain" / N. Scott Momaday -- From "A country year" / Sue Hubbell -- "The silence" / Chet Raymo -- "The gifts" / Richard K. Nelson -- "What the stones said" / Robert Finch -- "Dreaming elands" / Peter Steinhart -- From "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"; "Total eclipse" / Annie Dillard -- From "Arctic dreams"; "The raven" / Barry Lopez -- From "The Klamath Knot" / David Rains Wallace -- From "The solace of open spaces" / Gretel Ehrlich -- From "Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart" / Robert Michael Pyle -- "Animal rights and beyond" / David Quammen. "Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination" / Leslie Marmon Silko -- From "Adam's task : calling animals by name" / Vicki Hearne -- From "The desert smells like rain : a naturalist in Papago Indian country" / Gary Paul Nabhan -- "In the country of grasses" / Terry Tempest Williams.

ISBN: 0393027996

Accession Number: 2020.21

Call Number: 05.5 F49t

Collection: Archives Library

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Outdoor life cyclopedia : a complete guide for sportsmen

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

Published Date: 1945

Publisher: New York : Outdoor Life

Call Number: 02.7 Ou8o

Responsibility: Prepared by the editorial staff of Outdoor Life

Publisher: New York : Outdoor Life

Published Date: 1945

Physical Description: 334 pages

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

Subjects: Fishing; Firearms; Hunting; Deer; Elk; Bears; Dogs; Water Travel; Camping; Woodcraft; Food

Contents: Angling equipment -- Methods of fishing -- Fresh water fishing -- Ocean fishing -- The sporting rifle -- Learning to shoot -- Methods of hunting -- The deer family -- Elk, antelope, sheep, bear -- Hunting small game -- The shotgun -- American waterfowl -- Our upland birds -- Mastering the handgun -- Your gun dog -- The sportsman's boat -- Camping and woodcraft -- Camp recipies.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 02.7 Ou8o

Collection: Archives Library

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Pin Holder

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Date: 1940 – 1970

Material: cardboard; plastic; metal;

Catalogue Number: 104.45.0066

Description: Black plastic “OAKVILLE PIN HOLDER” in its original yellow cardboard box. The pin holder consists of a two-tiered body on a wider sloped base - the lower compartment contains the pins and the upper piece is pressed down on a spring, which funnels a pin through a hole on the top, allowing it to be p…

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Title: Pin Holder

Date: 1940 – 1970

Material: cardboard; plastic; metal;

Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.8 x 9.3 cm

Description: Black plastic “OAKVILLE PIN HOLDER” in its original yellow cardboard box. The pin holder consists of a two-tiered body on a wider sloped base - the lower compartment contains the pins and the upper piece is pressed down on a spring, which funnels a pin through a hole on the top, allowing it to be pulled out. The top consists of a cap that can be snapped off by pressing a small metal lever in order to access the pin compartment. The yellow cardboard box contains manufacturer information and instructions throughout the outside.

Subject: Crosby family; Abegweit; sewing equipment; homewares; household items

Credit: Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: 104.45.0066

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Projection Lens

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Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: metal; glass; cardboard

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0122

Description: A Kodak Precision Enlarger f/4.5 51mm focussing lens centered in a square metal plate with a black velvet-lined lens cap housed in the original grey Kodak cardboard box. This lens would be used with an enlarger as the very bottom piece before the image that is being enlarged.

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Title: Projection Lens

Date: 1940 – 1950

Material: metal; glass; cardboard

Dimensions: 4.4 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Description: A Kodak Precision Enlarger f/4.5 51mm focussing lens centered in a square metal plate with a black velvet-lined lens cap housed in the original grey Kodak cardboard box. This lens would be used with an enlarger as the very bottom piece before the image that is being enlarged.