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Ron Duke fonds
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government a…
- Date Range
- [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]
- Reference Code
- M175 / V180
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 175
- V 180
- Sous-Fonds
- M 175
- V 180
- Accession Number
- 168, 232, 1572, 1593, 1644, 1868, 2626, 3379, 5772
- Reference Code
- M175 / V180
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Postcard
- Private record
- Published record
- Responsibility
- Fonds includes primarily the private business records of Ron Duke, including the work of some predecessors. Images attributed to Bill Jamieson, working in the employ of George Noble, are V180 / II.A.i. through V180 / II.A.vi., and V180 / III.A.- 1 to 51.
- Date Range
- [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]
- Physical Description
- ca.40,000 photographs (ca.38,400 negatives, ca.800 prints, ca.800 transparencies). -- 1 photograph album. -- 3 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- Ronald Leslie Duke, 1912-1978, was a professional photographer at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Duke was educated at Calgary, Banff and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. After wartime service with the National Film Board of Canada, Ron Duke returned to Banff, where he worked in the photography business for the next thirty years. Here he formed a link in a business lineage of photographers, including George Noble, and was for a time an employee of Noble's corporate successors. After 1958, Duke worked closely with the Banff School of Fine Arts, photographing productions and providing documentary services. After sustaining considerable damage in a fire which destroyed Banff's Mount Royal Hotel in 1967, Ron Duke's business resumed and, in partnership with George Baracos, continued until retirement in 1975.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government and private construction, commercial and industrial projects, Banff National Park; Banff community life, including Banff Winter Carnival, sports and recreation, Banff High School, Banff activities, places and events; personal and occupational photographs arising from Duke's interest in aeronautics, work with the Canadian Army, World War II, and involvement in the oil industry, 1930s; scenic and landscape photographs. Most pertain to Banff National Park; also Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, United States; Turner Valley, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
- Textual records include job registers, 2 v.; samples of works orders, price lists, letters, equipment lists, invoices, receipts and technical information, mainly pertaining to business, some personal items; brochures, publications and postcards containing credited or attributed Ron Duke photographs.
- Name Access
- Duke, Ron
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Buildings and facilities
- Community life
- Commerce and industry
- Education
- Family and personal life
- 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: series and file description
- electronic finding aid
- Creator
- Duke, Ron
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Scenic views and Miscellaneous
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- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series pertains to ca. 304 black & white and colour negatives and prints pertaining to various topics including scenic views of Mount Rundle and Mount Assiniboine, buildings around Banff, an exhibit in the original Whyte Archives, portraits, snow removal, the cave at the Cave & Basin, a man in …
- Date Range
- [ca. 1961-1975]
- Reference Code
- V180 / V / A / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 30
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- GMD
- Negative
- Part Of
- Ron Duke fonds
- Description Level
- 4 / Sub-series
- Fonds Number
- M175 / V180
- Series
- V.A. Later material / events
- Sous-Fonds
- V180
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V180 / V / A / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 30
- GMD
- Negative
- Date Range
- [ca. 1961-1975]
- Physical Description
- ca. 304 photographs : b&w & col. negatives ; 12.5 x 10 cm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- Sub-series pertains to ca. 304 black & white and colour negatives and prints pertaining to various topics including scenic views of Mount Rundle and Mount Assiniboine, buildings around Banff, an exhibit in the original Whyte Archives, portraits, snow removal, the cave at the Cave & Basin, a man in hospital, posed plates of food, restaurant interiors, the new Margaret Greenham Theatre, and the Norquay Ski Lift. Includes: [1] - [Scenics] [2] - Banff Park, Sept, Wardens [3] - Pat Brewster [Stubby Knife and Sheath] [4] - U. Church [5] - Copy Neg. Dave White [6] - Dave White, Copy [7] - Banff Chairlift [8] - Pats Pattern [9] - Currie, copy negs. [10] - [Copies of Paintings – J.D. “Red” Cathcart] [11] - [Copies] [12] - Gondola Signs [13] - [Misc.] [14] - Misc. [15] - Travis, copy neg. [16] - [Dishes of Food] [17] - U. Church [18] - [Misc.] [19] - [Presentation and Exhibit] [20] - [Buffet Setting] Oct. 1961 [21] - [Food Plates] July 1967 [22] - July 24, 1967, Stiener [Chef with Food] [23] - [Paintings and Restaurant Interior] [24] - [Medical Photos – Injury] [25] - Pat Parker [26] - [Lot Draw, Charlie Beil] [27] - Crag [28] - Cave – Gov. [29] - Don MacNeil, Easter Seal [30] - 519, Gov. Snow removal for Crag., Mar. 75
- Notes
- All items contain more than one negative or print.
- Subject Access
- Art
- Banff Centre
- Buildings
- Businesses
- Cave and Basin
- Churches
- Community life
- Gondola
- Hospital
- Hotels
- Houses
- Library
- Margaret Greenham Theatre
- Mount Assiniboine
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Painting
- Photography
- Portrait
- Rundle Mountain
- Skating
- Ski areas
- Theatre
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Language
- NA
- Creator
- Duke, Ron
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of sub-series
- Processing Status
- Processed
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