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Caroline Hinman fonds

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Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds pertains to Hinman's career and travels in the Canadian Rockies and consists of I. Photograph albums; II. Motion pictures; III. Photographs (prints, lantern slides, 35mm transparencies); and IV. Textual records. Photographs and motion pictures pertain to mountain tours and trips led by Hinman…

Date Range: 1913-1960

Reference Code: M236 / V282

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Motion picture; Film; Photograph; Album; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 236; V 282

Sous-Fonds: M 236; V 282

Accession Number: 431, 696, 737, 1256, 1316, 1456, 1498, 1933

Reference Code: M236 / V282

GMD: Motion picture; Film; Photograph; Album; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1913-1960

Physical Description: 10 photograph albums (ca.3300 prints). -- ca.1600 photographs (574 prints, ca.1000 transparencies). -- 17 motion pictures. -- 4 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: Caroline Hinman, 1884-1966, was a trip/tour leader who worked out of Summit, New Jersey, USA. Hinman was first introduced to the Canadian Rockies in 1913, attending several early Alpine Club of Canada camps. For almost every summer following until ca.1960, she conducted pack trips and tours throughout the Rockies, chiefly in the area between Mount Assiniboine, British Columbia, and Jasper, Alberta. During winters, her parties travelled widely in Europe, Asia and Africa. Starting in the 1940s, Hinman offered a wide variety of motor and rail trips through the Rockies, fishing expeditions in British Columbia, as well as camping trips. Hinman's motto, "off the beaten track," became the hallmark of her adventures.

Scope & Content: Fonds pertains to Hinman's career and travels in the Canadian Rockies and consists of I. Photograph albums; II. Motion pictures; III. Photographs (prints, lantern slides, 35mm transparencies); and IV. Textual records.; Photographs and motion pictures pertain to mountain tours and trips led by Hinman, 1913-1960. Content includes Hinman, her associates and clients, activities and camps, and Banff and area and Rocky Mountain scenics.; Textual records, 1915-1960, include diaries, notebooks, manuscripts, trip accounts, advertising materials, and other material. One of the diaries refers to an early trip (1915) with Mary Jobe and Curly Phillips, Robson Pass. The tour literature includes form letters, pamphlets, etc. containing itineraries for most of Hinman's trips in the Canadian Rockies.

Name Access: Hinman, Caroline

Subject Access: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series, sub-series and file description; electronic finding aid; microfilm copies of albums; motion picture summaries; some video reference copies

Creator: Hinman, Caroline

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed / Unprocessed

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Tom Lonsdale and Florence Lonsdale fonds

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Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two series: I. Tom Lonsdale and Florence Lonsdale series, 1885-1973, 7.5 cm of textual records, 52 photographs : prints. Series consists of four sub-series: A. Tom Lonsdale personal and professional life; B. Florence Lonsdale personal and professional life; C. Banff Literary an…

Date Range: 1885-1973

Reference Code: M189 / V368

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Organization record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 189; V 368

Sous-Fonds: M 189; V 368

Accession Number: 667, 1154, 1384, 1865, 2225, 2243, 2247, 2277, 2433, 2462, 2685, 2958, 5175, 6417

Reference Code: M189 / V368

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Organization record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1885-1973

Physical Description: 666 photographs (614 transparencies, 52 prints). -- 7.5 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: Thomas Henry Lonsdale, 1886-1975, was a clergyman and teacher at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Florence Sanderson (Bennett) Lonsdale, 1894-1972, was a nurse and community worker. Tom Lonsdale emigrated to Canada in 1908 from England. He studied education and received his BA and BD in Alberta. From 1925 to 1958 Lonsdale was minister at Banff's Rundle Memorial United Church. Lonsdale was active in local organizations such as the Rotary Club and Senior Friends and was particularly interested in local theatre, being one of the founders of the Banff Literary and Dramatic Society. During the Second World War, Lonsdale served as chaplain at the prisoner of war camp at Ozada, near Seebe, Alberta. After retiring in 1958, Lonsdale joined the Banff School of Fine Arts, first as a student and later as a sketching instructor.; Florence Lonsdale nursed in England during the First World War, and also in Yugoslavia and Serbia until 1920. After marriage to Tom Lonsdale in 1922 and coming to Banff in 1925, she was a member and president of the Red Cross Society for forty-three years and was involved with the Banff Literary and Dramatic Society, Girl Guides, Canadian Club and the Women's Missionary Society.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of two series:; I. Tom Lonsdale and Florence Lonsdale series, 1885-1973, 7.5 cm of textual records, 52 photographs : prints. Series consists of four sub-series: A. Tom Lonsdale personal and professional life; B. Florence Lonsdale personal and professional life; C. Banff Literary and Dramatic Society; D. Lonsdale family.; II. Tom Lonsdale lantern slides series, 1885-ca.1920, 614 photographs : glass transparencies. Series consists of two sub-series: A. Numbered lantern slides; and, B. Unnumbered lantern slides.

Name Access: Lonsdale, Tom; Lonsdale, Florence

Subject Access: Community life; Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Religions

Access Restrictions: No restrictions on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series and file description; electronic finding aid

Related Material: Acquisitions included artwork housed in the art collection of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Creator: Lonsdale, Tom; Lonsdale, Florence

Category: Exploration, discovery and travel; Family and personal life; Religions

Biographical Source Notes: Previous field entry; articles (including obituaries) in the Crag and Canyon and Calgary Herald

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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William O. Field fonds

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Part Of: William O. Field fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of records created and collected by William O. Field during to glacier study, research and travels in the Canadian Rockies and area. I. CR files : [Canadian Rockies series], 1919-1989, 110 files and 13 volumes of textual records and ca.275 files of photographs. Textual records inclu…

Date Range: 1885-1989, predominant 1902-1989

Reference Code: M58 / V6

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Map; Private record; Published record

Part Of: William O. Field fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 58; V 6

Sous-Fonds: M 58; V 6

Accession Number: 5852, 6787

Reference Code: M58 / V6

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Map; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1885-1989, predominant 1902-1989

Physical Description: ca.7000 photographs : prints, negatives, transparencies. -- 4 photograph albums (475 prints). -- ca.55 cm and 14 v. of textual records. -- 4 cartographic records

History / Biographical: William O. Field, 1904-1994, of Massachusetts, U.S.A., was a noted geologist with the American Geographical Society and an expert on mountain glaciers of the northern hemisphere. He made trips to the Canadian Rockies with his father, William Osgood Field, during the 1920s even before graduating from Harvard in 1926. William O. Field studied key glaciers in British Columbia and Alberta from 1922 until 1981.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of records created and collected by William O. Field during to glacier study, research and travels in the Canadian Rockies and area.; I. CR files : [Canadian Rockies series], 1919-1989, 110 files and 13 volumes of textual records and ca.275 files of photographs. Textual records include diaries, notebooks and files for 1948, 1949 and 1953. Photographs include ca.5800 prints, ca.325 negatives and 4 photograph albums in annual files for years 1919 to 1927 and 1948, 1949 and 1953.; II. Reports, before 1980.; III. Resources, 1902-1985, consists of photographs, maps and textual volume collected by Field for research use.; IV. Display photographs, 1885-1953.

Name Access: Field, William O.

Subject Access: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Science and technology

Access Restrictions: Some restrictions on access to originals; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: arrangement outline; series and file description; electronic finding aid

Creator: Field, William O.

Category: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel; Science and technology

Biographical Source Notes: grant application 2000

Title Source: Title based on accession record

Processing Status: Processed

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Numbered lantern slides

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Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to wildlife, flowers; mountain scenery, including Kootenay Park; unidentified ski mountaineering trip. Photographers may include Byron Harmon and Tom Lonsdale

Date Range: [ca.1890-ca.1920]

Reference Code: V368 / PS 1 - 1 to 79

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

1 image

Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

Fonds Number: V368

Series: II.A. Tom Lonsdale lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V368

Reference Code: V368 / PS 1 - 1 to 79

Date Range: [ca.1890-ca.1920]

Physical Description: 79 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to wildlife, flowers; mountain scenery, including Kootenay Park; unidentified ski mountaineering trip. Photographers may include Byron Harmon and Tom Lonsdale

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Prints. -- 1915-1958.

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Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Scope & Content: Pertain to Caroline Hinman and her camping, climbing,hiking, horse, canoe and motor trips in the Canadian Rockies. Includes camps, hunting, climbs, Skyline Hikes, pack trips, scenery etc. Some views pertain to trip personnel such as Jim Boyce and Curly Phillips, and clients such as Lillian Gest.

Date Range: 1915-1958

Reference Code: V282 / PA (1 - 566); V282 / PB (1 - 8)

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

13 images

Part Of: Caroline Hinman fonds

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

Fonds Number: V282

Series: III.A. Photographs: prints

Sous-Fonds: V282

Accession Number: 1256

Reference Code: V282 / PA (1 - 566); V282 / PB (1 - 8)

Date Range: 1915-1958

Physical Description: 574 photographs : prints; 8 oversize.

Scope & Content: Pertain to Caroline Hinman and her camping, climbing,hiking, horse, canoe and motor trips in the Canadian Rockies. Includes camps, hunting, climbs, Skyline Hikes, pack trips, scenery etc. Some views pertain to trip personnel such as Jim Boyce and Curly Phillips, and clients such as Lillian Gest.

Finding Aid: Item-level list available.

Processing Status: Processed

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Unnumbered lantern slides

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Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mounta…

Date Range: 1885-[ca.1920]

Reference Code: V368 / PS 2 - 1 to 535

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

8 images

Part Of: Tom and Florence Lonsdale fonds

Description Level: 4 / Sub-series

Fonds Number: V368

Series: II.B. Tom Lonsdale lantern slides

Sous-Fonds: V368

Reference Code: V368 / PS 2 - 1 to 535

GMD: Photograph; Lantern slide

Date Range: 1885-[ca.1920]

Physical Description: 535 photographs : transparencies; glass

Scope & Content: Photographs are lantern slides used in presentations by Tom Lonsdale. Content pertains to mountain landscapes; roadways and roadside structures; wildlife and flowers; mountain recreation; Banff townsite, events and structures camps. Also includes CPR lantern slides, 50 items, pertaining to mountain landscape; mountaineering; trains; hotels and camps; flowers and wildlife; CPR hotels across Canada; ships

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Content Details: LIST OF LANTERN SLIDES - V368 / PS 2 :; 1 - 54 Mountains; 55 - 79 Glaciers; 80 - 118 Rivers and Falls; 119 - 175 Lakes; 176 - 213 Flowers, purple/blue/pink; 214 - 250 Flowers, white; 251 - 263 Flowers, yellow; 264 - 282 Birds; 283 - 303 Bears; 304 - 311 Small mammals; 312 - 318 Deer; 319 - 323 Elk; 324 - 328 Moose / antelope; 329 - 332 Buffalo; 333 - 337 Mountain sheep; 338 - 345 Mountain goats; 346 - 394 Roads, structures; 395 - 405 Indians; 406 - 416 Banff townsite; 417 - 422 Banff Winter Carnival; 423 - 437 Banff Springs Hotel and golf course; 438 - 442 Camps; 443 - 459 Mountaineering and hiking; 460 - 466 Outfitting; 467 - 472 Dogsledding; 473 - 476 Skiing; 477 - 526 C.P.R.; 527 - 535 Maps