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Animal Figurine

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Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: glass

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0011

Description: A small, clear, cut glass figurine of a dog or sheep lying or crouching.

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Title: Animal Figurine

Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: glass

Dimensions: 3.0 cm

Description: A small, clear, cut glass figurine of a dog or sheep lying or crouching.

Subject: households; collectables; animals, sheep; animals, dogs

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0011

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Animal Figurine

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Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: mineral, onyx

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0046

Description: Blue-grey onyx carved into the shape of a standing , simplified bison. The figurine has a brown luster at the top of head and hump, rump back of hind legs, and patch on left side.

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Title: Animal Figurine

Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: mineral, onyx

Dimensions: 5.5 x 7.0 cm

Description: Blue-grey onyx carved into the shape of a standing , simplified bison. The figurine has a brown luster at the top of head and hump, rump back of hind legs, and patch on left side.

Subject: households; animals; animals, buffalo

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0046

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Animal Figurine

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Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: wood; glass

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0071

Description: A carved wooden black cat sitting with its tail tucked around its body. There is heavy stylized hair texture incised on the tail and at the haunches, with a lighter texture surrounding the face and pointed ears. The facial features are carved, and the cat has yellow glass eyes. A large, deep cyl…

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Title: Animal Figurine

Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: wood; glass

Dimensions: 18.0 x 8.0 x 11.0 cm

Description: A carved wooden black cat sitting with its tail tucked around its body. There is heavy stylized hair texture incised on the tail and at the haunches, with a lighter texture surrounding the face and pointed ears. The facial features are carved, and the cat has yellow glass eyes. A large, deep cylindrical hole (diam. 4 cm.) is drilled at a slight angle into the back at the shoulders.

Subject: households; collectables; animals, felines; animals, cats; Philip Moore

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0071

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Drum

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Date: 1940 – 1970

Material: skin; feathers; metal; paint

Catalogue Number: 104.33.3013

Description: Shallow drum, with buckskin stretched over round metal band. Fur stuffed inside back of band. Two feathers hang one end. Painting of a bison head on face.

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Title: Drum

Date: 1940 – 1970

Material: skin; feathers; metal; paint

Dimensions: 3.0 x 18.0 x 18.0 cm

Description: Shallow drum, with buckskin stretched over round metal band. Fur stuffed inside back of band. Two feathers hang one end. Painting of a bison head on face.

Subject: Indigenous; Stoney; ceremonial; painting; tourism; souvenirs; animals, bison; animals, buffalo; music; pow wow; dancing

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.33.3013

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Lobo, and other stories from Wild animals I have known : being the personal histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Redruff, Bingo

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

Published Date: 1921

Author: Thompson Seton, Ernest

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's & Sons

Call Number: 05 T37w

Author: Thompson Seton, Ernest

Responsibility: Ernest Thompson Seton

Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's & Sons

Published Date: 1921

Physical Description: 125 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations

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

Subjects: Animals; Animals, Domestic; Wildlife; Folklore

Abstract: Pertains to stories about animals

Contents: A list of the stories in this book and their full page drawings:; Lobo, the King of Currumpaw; Silverspot, the Story of a Crow; Raggylug, the Story of a Cottontail Rabbit; Bingo, the Story of My Dog; The Springfield Fox; The Pacing Mustang; Wully, the Story of a Yaller Dog; Redruff, the Story of the Don Valley Partridge; The thought (tail-piece)

Accession Number: 2926

Call Number: 05 T37w

Collection: Archives Library

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Mustela (Erminea?) Head

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Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: skin; glass; wood

Catalogue Number: 112.01.0021 a-f

Description: Six crudely tanned and finished weasel heads with balsa wood supports. Each head has brown fur and glass eyes, and one head, (d), has been finished with plastic teeth.

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Title: Mustela (Erminea?) Head

Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: skin; glass; wood

Dimensions: 3.5 (average) x 6.0 (average) x 9.0 (average) cm

Description: Six crudely tanned and finished weasel heads with balsa wood supports. Each head has brown fur and glass eyes, and one head, (d), has been finished with plastic teeth.

Subject: households; animals, ermine; animals, weasel; crafts; taxidermy

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 112.01.0021 a-f

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Saddlebag

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Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: fibre; hair, sheep

Catalogue Number: 106.06.0030

Description: A pair of handwoven wool saddlebags for a donkey or burro. Each bag has a white background with a red diamond pattern and tassels of wool at the lower corners. The bags are attached with red and white straps at the upper corners and have flaps which are edged with plaid fabric. There are ties to…

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Title: Saddlebag

Date: 1920 – 1940

Material: fibre; hair, sheep

Dimensions: 2.0 (thickness) x 33.0 x 91.0 cm

Description: A pair of handwoven wool saddlebags for a donkey or burro. Each bag has a white background with a red diamond pattern and tassels of wool at the lower corners. The bags are attached with red and white straps at the upper corners and have flaps which are edged with plaid fabric. There are ties to close the flaps securely.

Subject: transportation; animals, donkey; animals, burro

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 106.06.0030

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Whip Hook

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Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: wood; horn; glass

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0075

Description: A carved wooden wolf or fox with a sharp nose and large pointed ears and inset glass eyes. The animals is dressed in a long-tailed coat with a bag across its chest hanging at one side. The left hand is replaced by chamois horn which is being brushed with a clothes brush held in the right hand. T…

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Title: Whip Hook

Date: 1920 – 1950

Material: wood; horn; glass

Dimensions: 33.5 x 7.5 x 13.0 cm

Description: A carved wooden wolf or fox with a sharp nose and large pointed ears and inset glass eyes. The animals is dressed in a long-tailed coat with a bag across its chest hanging at one side. The left hand is replaced by chamois horn which is being brushed with a clothes brush held in the right hand. The right leg is crossed over left which is another chamois horn, and the bushy tail is wrapped around both legs. The back is flat with a hole for hanging.

Subject: households; collectables; animals, fox; animals, wolf; black forest; whip; swiss

Credit: Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 107.01.0075

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1943 Canadian Rockies Summer & Autumn Trip

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1943 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various…

Date Range: 1943

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 79 to 83

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Photograph; Transparency

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.a.i Photographic material / transparencies / boxes

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 79 to 83

GMD: Film; Photograph; Transparency

Parallel Title: R79-1 to R124-15. -- 1943-1947 V225 / NS - 4

Date Range: 1943

Physical Description: 50 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 50 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1943 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, fishing, and wildlife. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook. Titles: Reel 79 Aug 1 - 1943 1. Rams on cliff morning 8. Mt. Rundle and lake shore 13. Cascade and meadow 14. Sheep in swamp 16. Mama sheep and baby - again 17. one baby sheep 18. 2 baby sheeps 19. 2 baby sheeps flaw in film Reel 80 Aug 15 - 1943 3. Ewe and others [in swamp - Rundle] 4. Ews and lams in swamp [Rundle] 5. Moose in Vermilion sundown 7. Goat at animal paddock 9. Crowd on opabin glacier 10. Crowd at Mac Arthur Lake at lunch 11. Crowd on opabin glacier 13. /Same not so good\ Crowd strung out on glacier 14. Same - end of line of people 16. Emmy[?], Big Tom and Denny near lake 17. Crowd on meadows - opabin Reel 81 Aug 21 - 1943 3. Crowd around the dining table 7. Mt. Biddle from Yukness ridge 12. Phyl and Aletta on Yukness 13. Towards Yoho and Balfour fr. Yukness over Wiwaxy col. 15. Ronny with pot at fire Linda Lake 16. Ronny with fish at Linda Lake 17. Walter's T. Model Ford - W. and Ronny and Mr. Stewart[?] Reel 82 Sept 2 -1943 1. Gopher by tree en route to Linda Lake 2. Ronny w. rucksack 3. Tom, Aletta, Phyl starting for Abbot Pass 4. Mother and Sig[?] looking out window 5. Spray River when I fished - Cascade Mt. 7. Mother at bearspaw table better 12. Mother and bear alarms[?] on step 13. L.G. bringing in faggots [sticks] from yard 14. Fish in pond 15. Fish hatchery fr. viewpoint [illegible] 17. Doe in backwater down Bow R. [illegible] 19. View across BOw to Hoodoos and Cascade Reel 83 Sept 7 - 1943 1. Boe valley fr. Lake Agnes 4. Trail boulders and Lake Agnes 8. Victoria ridge fr. Fairview slopes 10. Same nearer 15. Sig - and Mt. Rundle fr [Admin gardens] 16. Browne porch and BNG reading [illegible] 17. SIg and 2 companions starting fr. Spray V. 19. DH.G. on hammock 20. ALong the Great Divide by B. Browne.

Notes: Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1). Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists.

Name Access: Gest, Lillian; Browne, Belmore; Kingman, Henry S.; Sampson, Herbert E.; Hendrie, Jimmie; Link, Adeline; Smith, Soapy (Herbert Alonzo)

Subject Access: Activities; Administration; Alpine Club of Canada; Animals; Automobiles; Backpacking; Boats; Buildings; Cabins; Cabins and shelters; Camping; Camps; Climbing; Club; Environment; Environment and Nature; Exploration; Family and personal life; Fishing; Flowers; Glaciers; Guides; Hiking; Horse packing; Horses; Hotels; Landscapes; Mountain; Mountains; Mountaineering; National parks and reserves; Organizations; Outfitters; Pack trips; Personal and Professional Life; Photography; Recreation; Sports and leisure; Sports and recreation; Swiss Guides; Tourism; Trails; Travel; Wildlife

Geographic Access: Banff; Banff National Park; Lake O'Hara; Lake MacArthur; Yoho National Park; Alberta; British Columbia; Canada

Language: NA

Conservation: Removed from original boxes and rehoused in slide sleeves and acid-free folders.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file.

Processing Status: Processed

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1944 Summer & Autumn Canadian Rockies Trip

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 57 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1944 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various…

Date Range: 1944

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 84 to 89

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Photograph; Transparency

55 images 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.a.i Photographic material / transparencies / boxes

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / a / i / NS - 84 to 89

GMD: Film; Photograph; Transparency

Parallel Title: R79-1 to R124-15. -- 1943-1947 V225 / NS - 4

Date Range: 1944

Physical Description: 57 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 57 35mm colour transparency slides mounted in cardboard sleeves. Includes photographs taken during the summer and autumn of 1944 in and around the Banff townsite, Lake O'Hara, and the Yoho Valley. Subjects include mountains, landscapes, the Bow River, lakes, people, horses, various camps [mostly Alpine Club of Canada camps], hiking, fishing, and wildlife. Some slides missing; most explained in notebook. Titles: Reel 84 Aug 4 - 1944 1. Diamond pines 2. Lou and Richard in arms 3. Richard on our porch 4. [Richard] in coach 5. Lou and Richard on chair - their barn 6. [Lou and Richard on] lawn 7. [Lou and Richard on lawn] 8. Richard on blanket on lawn 9. Same 10. Nearer of same 11. [Nearer of same] 12. [Nearer of same] 14. Buffaloes in paddock 15. Ewe and lamb 17. Bow R. backwater opp. Hoodoes. Reel 85 Aug 12 - 1944 3. [Cos moose and calf at Sundance Cr. 4. Mt Pinnacle fr. Paradise Valley 5. Mt. Eiffel [fr. Paradise Valley] 6. Part of Hungabee [fr. Paradise Valley] 7. Mt. Lefroy [fr. Paradise Valley] 11. Twin avalanches fr. Lefroy starting 13. Cow elk and baby Louise Road 19. Beaver swimming Reel 86 Aug 21 - '44 1. Sentinel on the pass and Mt. Lefroy 2. Sentinels on pass early am 3. Ptarmigan on slopes of Eiffel 8. Charley and ptarmigan 10. Crowd watching on hillside 14. Mt. Aberdeen above supply tent 18. L.S. same place [Paradise boulder] Reel 87 Aug 22, 1944 3. L.S. [on Paradise Peak] 6. [Canfield and H. Kingman w. Eric] 7. Kingman and Ken Jones 11. [Sunday service] closer, gabeline up. 12. Same - tents in background 15. Girls on log - tea party upper valley 16. The Richards and red paracol 17. Emmie and chips 19. Col. west moreland - nailing boots 22. Polly meniet[?] gift of Mr. Sampson Reel 88 Aug 22 - 1944 2. [On] summit Dorothy Richards 5. [View fr. Temple] Yoho 6. Party on Suentinel Pass 7. Trail Ride - D[?]erty etc at start 9. Tepee poles at first camp - Fatigne Creek 10. Cook tent and pots - first camp 13. Crowd riding over summit 14. Crowd on aeplands 15. Helen Zilmer[?] on pass - Assin in rear 19. Porky in tree at lunch Reel 89 Sept 15 - 1944 1. BHG at gardens - Mt Cascade 2. Helen Harbison and BH.G. Admin gardens 3. Emmie on Rundle ridge 8. Dan and Mary by back door 9. Dan and his cabin - Mt. Rundle 10. B.B. picture "Along the great Divide" 11. Same 12. BH.G. in chair by porch 13. Browne House Mother in chair 14. Same over exposed 15. BH.G. Admin gardens on bench 16. L.S. Admin gardens 17. Same further away 18. [Illegible] in Mt. Norquay fr. Sundance Rd. 19. Beavers at feeding grounds eve 21. Cow and calf Vermilion Lakes - eve

Notes: Slide numbering kept as originally organized, see SL I for more information (M67 / II / C / i / a / 51 - 1). Please note: titles listed below are only those located in this box. Some others have been romved from their original order for use in slide shows made by Lillian Gest prior to accession. Please see related material notebook SL I for full title lists.