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Description: Black wood box covered in leatherette and metal hardware. Missing handle at the top, two view finders (standard on box cameras) one landscape and one portrait. Four visible aperture settings on the shutter. Two other holes in the top left of the front of the camera.

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Title: Box Camera

Date: 1915 – 1922

Material: wood; leatherette; glass; metal

Dimensions: 16.5 x 12.5 x 17 cm

Description: Black wood box covered in leatherette and metal hardware. Missing handle at the top, two view finders (standard on box cameras) one landscape and one portrait. Four visible aperture settings on the shutter. Two other holes in the top left of the front of the camera.

Credit: Gift of Harold C. Whyte, Penticton, 2017

Catalogue Number: 104.41.1202

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Cigar Box

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Date: n.d.

Material: wood; paper;

Catalogue Number: 110.01.0299 a-d

Description: A Daily Double cigar box filled with three Tintex Tints and Dyes. a) A beige coloured cigar box that features black text that reads “Daily Double DOUBLE VALUE DD DOUBLE SATISFACTION” across the lid, along the edges of each plane of the box is red tape that repeats the text “DAILY DOUBLE DD”. Across…

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Title: Cigar Box

Date: n.d.

Material: wood; paper;

Dimensions: 3.8 x 13.4 x 21.7 cm

Description: A Daily Double cigar box filled with three Tintex Tints and Dyes. a) A beige coloured cigar box that features black text that reads “Daily Double DOUBLE VALUE DD DOUBLE SATISFACTION” across the lid, along the edges of each plane of the box is red tape that repeats the text “DAILY DOUBLE DD”. Across the back of the box are thick strips of brown tape that obscure the text along the sides, both which read “Daily Double” with some other text, the left “50 PORT 23 D” and the right “50”. Across the front of the box the text reads “Daily Double (CLARO)”. The interior of the box is simple except for the inside of the lid with features a red and yellow label that takes up the entirety of the lid. It reads “Daily Double” in yellow block print with a diagonal banner of a horse race and underneath, “Cigars” in handwriting font. In a circle on the left it reads “2 FOR 5 C (cents)” and at the bottom in a yellow stripe in black text “DOUBLE VALUE - DOUBLE SATISFACTION”. b) - d) are small boxes of Tintex Tints and Dyes. Each box features a significant amount of text including “All-fabric” in a handwriting font, “Tintex Tints & Dyes” “”CELANESE” OTHER RAYONS NYLON”, “COTTON, WOOL, SILK, LINEN AND ALL MIXTURES”. The front of the box features an illustration of a stereotypical housewife of the 1940s holding up a pink garment in front of a sink. Text along the sides includes notes on the product, other Tintex products, and on the back instructions for use of product. Inside each box features a packet of the dye in powder form concealed in an envelope and another piece of paper with instructions. 1.6 x 6.0 x 9.5cm. Each box has the dye colour written in the top right corner:b) “25 NAVY BLUE”c) “1 TURQUOISE BLUE”d) “25 NAVY BLUE”

Subject: cigar; box; household; fabric dye; fabric tint; Tintex; Daily Double Cigars

Credit: Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991

Catalogue Number: 110.01.0299 a-d

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.727

Description: An artist is sitting on a stool in front of a massive canvas resting on an easel. The figure is painting a mountain scene with tubs of paint around him, and a supply box off to his left.verso: signed by Peter Whyte with the presumed date: “1928 or 29 by Peter Whyte”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1929

Medium: graphite; watercolour on paper

Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 cm

Description: An artist is sitting on a stool in front of a massive canvas resting on an easel. The figure is painting a mountain scene with tubs of paint around him, and a supply box off to his left.verso: signed by Peter Whyte with the presumed date: “1928 or 29 by Peter Whyte”

Subject: painting; easel; stool; artist; man; paint; tube; supply box; mountains

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

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.727

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