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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26173
- 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
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.01
- Description
- A large mountain rises up at left, a glacier spills down its face into the centre of the painting. Thin conifer trees are in the foreground. The sky is dark blue.
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- Title
- Andromeda
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 30.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- A large mountain rises up at left, a glacier spills down its face into the centre of the painting. Thin conifer trees are in the foreground. The sky is dark blue.
- Subject
- mountains
- glaciers
- Mount Andromeda, Banff
- Credit
- Gift of David More, Benalto, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.01
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Basket, Ski Pole Ski Pole
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- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal; leather
- Catalogue Number
- 106.04.0003
- Description
- One ski pole basket. A silver metal ring with three red leather straps equally spaced attached to the ring. Within each leather strap is a 8.2 cm cut in the middle with a cut circle on each end of the cut. The straps are connected via a metal rivet. The leather is smooth on the top and rough/untrea…
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- Title
- Basket, Ski Pole Ski Pole
- Date
- 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal; leather
- Description
- One ski pole basket. A silver metal ring with three red leather straps equally spaced attached to the ring. Within each leather strap is a 8.2 cm cut in the middle with a cut circle on each end of the cut. The straps are connected via a metal rivet. The leather is smooth on the top and rough/untreated on the bottom side.
- Credit
- Gift of Frank Gourlay, Banff, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 106.04.0003
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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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Contemporary japan : a review of Japanese affairs, March 1934, Vol. II, No. 4
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25565
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 1934
- Publisher
- Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Call Number
- 08 F76g
- Responsibility
- The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Publisher
- Tokyo : The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan
- Published Date
- 1934
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs includes various contributors writing about a variety of topics focused on Japan. This quarterly review was published by the Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
- Contents
- The Open Door in China and Manchuria / Sakutaro Tachi ; Anglo-Japanese Relations / M. D. Kennedy ; Japan and Soviet Russia / Katsuji Fusé ; The New Delhi Conference / Tanzan Ishibashi ; The Real Hirota / Taketora Ogata ; The Japanese Spirit / Masaatsu Yasuoka ; Seventy Years with the Chisel (illustrated) / Koun Takamura ; War Clouds in the Far East / Hatsutaro Haraguchi ; Dissolve the Political Parties / Yosuké Matsuoka ; Sen Katayama / H. vere Redman ; Whither the Japanese Peasantry? / Akira Kazami ; Outdoor Sports in Japan / G. Caiger ; Konjaku Monogatari -- Another Heian Masterpiece / Masajiro Kojima
- Notes
- From Catharine Robb Whyte Estate. Contains image that has been tipped-in.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08 F76g
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- metal; nickel silver;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1299 a-i
- Description
- Mostly matching set of nickel silver dining flatware consisting of four forks, two knives [one of which does not match the rest], and three spoons - one is smaller than the other two. The set features decorations of flowers throughout the handles; two bunched together at the end, one in the middle,…
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- Title
- Dining Flatware
- Date
- 1930 – 1960
- Material
- metal; nickel silver;
- Dimensions
- 2.1 x 3.6 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- Mostly matching set of nickel silver dining flatware consisting of four forks, two knives [one of which does not match the rest], and three spoons - one is smaller than the other two. The set features decorations of flowers throughout the handles; two bunched together at the end, one in the middle, and one just below the head with thin decorative lines between them. The one knife that doesn’t match the others has a decorative border around the mostly square handle with scrolls and flowers in the middle - it has a maker’s mark stamped on the blade that looks like “CVO STAINLESS.” Every piece of the set has “ROGERS NICKEL SILVER” stamped on the backs - no information found online.
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1299 a-i
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Evening Forms - Slopes and Mt. Athabasca
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.03
- Description
- A mountain scene in which a grassy, lightly forested slope leads to a green and brown slope. In the background is a large, snow covered mountain. The sky is visible at top left and is mainly blue with streaks of pink.
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- Title
- Evening Forms - Slopes and Mt. Athabasca
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- A mountain scene in which a grassy, lightly forested slope leads to a green and brown slope. In the background is a large, snow covered mountain. The sky is visible at top left and is mainly blue with streaks of pink.
- Subject
- mountains
- Mt. Athabasca
- Credit
- Gift of David More, Benalto, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.03
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Glacier Majesty (diptych)
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.02
- Description
- A mountain scene showing large mountains separated by two large glaciers that reach into the foreground. Colours are browns and purples for the mountains and white, blue, and grey for the glaciers.
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- Title
- Glacier Majesty (diptych)
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 81.0 cm
- Description
- A mountain scene showing large mountains separated by two large glaciers that reach into the foreground. Colours are browns and purples for the mountains and white, blue, and grey for the glaciers.
- Subject
- mountains
- glaciers
- Columbia Icefields
- Credit
- Gift of David More, Benalto, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.02
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The golden grindstone : the adventures of George M. Mitchell
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26172
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
- Responsibility
- Recorded by Angus Graham
- Publisher
- Toronto : Oxford University Press, Canadian Branch
- Published Date
- 1935
- Contents
- I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 08.2 G76g
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The Group of Seven : art for a nation
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25678
- 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
- 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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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
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In the shadow of Mount McKinley
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
- Author
- Beach, William N.
- Responsibility
- Foreword by John Burnhalm ; Introduction by Robert Sterling Yard ; Illustrations by Carl Rungius
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- New York ; The Derrydale Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 289 pages ; 63 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
- Notes
- Special Edition: 750 copies printed.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.3 B36i
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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
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Europe
- Alps
- Mountaineering
- Glaciers
- Nature
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
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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
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : Lone Pine Publishing
- Published Date
- 1991
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- 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
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The pathfinder [film]
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- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- [1932?]
- Publisher
- Associated Screen News Limited
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 NF
- Responsibility
- B.E. Norrish [producer]
- Photographer: Alfred Jacquemin
- described by B.K. Sandwell
- narrated by Corey Thomson
- Publisher
- Associated Screen News Limited
- Published Date
- [1932?]
- Physical Description
- 1 16mm film reel
- Subjects
- Wilson, Tom
- Abstract
- Biography about Tom Wilson. Storyline includes reenactments of unidentified Indigenous men who showed him where the locations of Lake Louise and Emerald Lake were. Also includes the real Tom Wilson, Pat Brewster, ca. 1932.
- Notes
- 16mm film copied to digital file May 27, 2021: mp4; .mov and .mxf. Former 08.3 W69 V DVD copy was from a VHS copy.
- Call Number
- 08.3 W69 NF
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- Archives Library
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Rain Shrouds the Nigels
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- Oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.04
- Description
- A rainbow stretches from the centre of the painting to the upper right corner. Below the rainbow is a grassy slope with red and purple accents. a rocky outcrop emerges from a cloud at left. the sky is swirls of purple.
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- Title
- Rain Shrouds the Nigels
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- Oil on board
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- A rainbow stretches from the centre of the painting to the upper right corner. Below the rainbow is a grassy slope with red and purple accents. a rocky outcrop emerges from a cloud at left. the sky is swirls of purple.
- Credit
- Gift of David More, Benalto, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.02.04
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The rise of American civilization : Volume One
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25559
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
- Responsibility
- Decorations by Wilfred Jones
- Publisher
- New York : The MacMillan Company
- Published Date
- 1930
- Subjects
- American
- American Civil War
- History
- Colonialism
- War
- Politics
- Contents
- I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 08 B38t
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The romance of mountaineering
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 320 pages ; 40 ill.
- Contents
- PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
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Top of Panther Falls
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- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- black conte’ and watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.03.02
- Description
- A loose black and white sketch showing a pool surrounded by rocks and emerging in a waterfall in the foreground. The pool has been painted with light blue watercolour. There is a pile of dead logs at the edge of the pool where it begins to become a waterfall.
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- Title
- Top of Panther Falls
- Date
- 1993
- Medium
- black conte’ and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 50.5 x 50.5 cm
- Description
- A loose black and white sketch showing a pool surrounded by rocks and emerging in a waterfall in the foreground. The pool has been painted with light blue watercolour. There is a pile of dead logs at the edge of the pool where it begins to become a waterfall.
- Subject
- waterfall
- Credit
- Gift of David More, Benalto, 2021
- Catalogue Number
- MoI.03.02
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