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Scope & Content: File consists of 10 b&w negatives.. The negatives pertain to various scenic views in and around Banff, Yoho, Glacier, and Jasper National Parks; along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; First Nations and Aboriginal subjects; various birds; Mount Robson area. File consists of composite negat…

Date Range: [ca. 1907 to ca.1975]

Reference Code: V263 / II / D / 1 / NA - 977 to 986

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Negative; Negative, copy; Photograph

Part Of: Byron Harmon fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V263

Series: V263 / II / D / 1: Original, Copy, and Duplicate Negatives and Positives

Sous-Fonds: V263

Reference Code: V263 / II / D / 1 / NA - 977 to 986

GMD: Negative; Negative, copy; Photograph

Date Range: [ca. 1907 to ca.1975]

Physical Description: Negatives: 10 b&w

Scope & Content: File consists of 10 b&w negatives.. The negatives pertain to various scenic views in and around Banff, Yoho, Glacier, and Jasper National Parks; along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway; First Nations and Aboriginal subjects; various birds; Mount Robson area. File consists of composite negatives.

Subject Access: Mountains; Glaciers; Landscapes; Indigenous Peoples; First Nations; Stoney Nakoda

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: This material is presented as originally created, it contains outdated cultural descriptions and potentially offensive content. Materials in historical collections reflect the attitudes, ideas, and norms of the era and culture in which they were created or collected. Offensive or harmful terms are retained for historical accuracy or to document the issues and social context of a specific time and the attitudes and opinions of the people who created the material. V263/II/D/1/NA - 977 [Captions on negative: Crowfoot Glacier; Peyto Glacier From Louise-Jasper Highway; MT. Athabasca; Columbia Icefields; Bow Glacier. Bow Lake; Athabasca Falls; Peyto Lake; MT. Chephren. Black and white composite negative. 21cm x 30cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 978 [Captions on negative: MT. Lefroy Lake Louise; On the Road To Moraine Lake; The Giant Stairway; MT Fay; Pinnacle Peak; Moraine Lake; MT. Temple, Consolation Lake; Summer Snow Storm, Lake Louise. Black and white composite negative. 21cm x 29cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 979 [Mount Robson from the east; Hell’s Gate in Fraser Canyon; Canadian Pacific Railway Train on Stoney Creek Bridge; unidentified canyon; Spiral Tunnels; Canadian Pacific Train below Mount Stephen. Black and White composite negative. 20cm x 25cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 980 [Canadian Pacific Railway Train on Stoney Creek Bridge; unidentified canyon; Spiral Tunnels; Canadian Pacific Train below Mount Stephen; Canadian Pacific Railway train in Kicking Horse Canyon; Albert Canyon. Black and white composite negative. 20cm x 25cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 981 [Captions on negative: Stoney Creek Bridge; 154. Cisco Bridge; 85. MT. Sir Donald; MT. Burgess, Emerald Lake, 167; 135. Lower Spiral Tunnell Field; 228. East Portal, Connaught Tunnell; 54. Mount Stephen Field; At Albert Canyon; 231. Connaught Tunnell; 131. Upper Spiral tunnel; 142. Lower Spiral tunnel; Albert Canyon 76; 217. Kicking Horse Canyon; 219. Kicking Horse Canyon; 166. Takakaw Falls; 90 Hells Gate.; Set No.3. Black and white composite negative. 25.5cm x 27.5cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 982 [Captions on negative: Bow Valley 246; Banff Village; Goat MTN 51; 40 Government Bath Banff; Bow Falls, Banff; MT. Edith Banff 60; 57. MT Rundle, Banff; 64. Castle MTN, Banff; 48. C.P.R. Hotel and Sulphur MT Banff; Three Sisters, Banff; 262. MT Assiniboine, NR Banff; Lake Minnewanka Banff; 157. Bow River and Goat MTN Banff; 287. Johnson Canyon, Banff; 88 Banff Avenue; 224. Johnson Canyon, Falls; 240. Cascade MTN Banff. Black and white composite negative. 19.5cm x 28cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 983 [Great Divide Monument. Captions on negative: 108 Lake Louise & Victoria Glacier; 264. Lake Louise; 61.; 106. Giant Stairway; 59. Lake Agnes; 147. On Field Hill; 178. Valley of Ten Peaks; 117. Victoria Glacier and MT Lefroy; 122. MT Lefroy Lake Louise; 72. Moraine Lake; Mount Temple; Lake Louise, Mirror Lake, Lakes in the Clouds, The Beehive, Lake Agnes, 109; 119. Lake Louise, MT Lefroy; 180. Consolation Valley; 149. On Field Hill. Black and white composite negative. 19.8cm x 27.5cm. One aperture missing.] V263/II/D/1/NA - 984 [Captions on negative: Stoney Encampment; Western Indian Squaw; Western Indian Family; 247. Indian Totem Pole; Indian Squaw; Indian Chief; Indian Chief; Western Indian Squaw & Family; Stoney Indian Encampment; Stoney Indian; Indian & Squaw; Indian Children; Bearskin Stoney Indian; Indian Chief; Western Indian Family; Indian Warrior. Black and white composite negative. 25cm x 27.5cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 985 [Captions on negative: Great Blue Herons; Canadian Duck on Nest; Willow Grouse; Canadian Geese; Canadian Gull; Gulls Nest; 454. Young Pelicans; 456. Blue Heron; 455. Widgeon; Ptarmigan and Young; Duck’s Nest; Snow Ptarmigan; Pelican on Nest; 452. Young Gull; Blue Grouse; 463. Comorant. Black and white composite negative. 25cm x 28cm] V263/II/D/1/NA - 986 [Mount Robson from the east; train crossing Stoney Creek Bridge; Spiral Tunnels; Canadian Pacific Railway train in Kicking Horse Canyon; Hell’s Gate, Fraser Canyon; unidentified canyon; Canadian Pacific Railway train below Mount Stephen; Albert Canyon. Black and white composite negative. 30cm x 25cm]

Processing Status: Processed

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