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Galletly family fonds
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- Part Of
- Galletly family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes D. D. Galletly and Galletly family papers and photographs. Textual records consist of David Galletly papers and Galletly family music. David Galletly papers include manuscripts, n.d., 1914; correspondence 1888-1907; and personal papers n.d., 1902 re early life in Canmore and Banff an…
- Date Range
- [ca.1880-ca.1960]
- Reference Code
- M114 / V421
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
- Tintype
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Galletly family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 114
- V 421
- Sous-Fonds
- M 114
- V 421
- Accession Number
- 268, 492, 2257, 2743
- Reference Code
- M114 / V421
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Photograph print
- Tintype
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Private record
- Published record
- Date Range
- [ca.1880-ca.1960]
- Physical Description
- ca.5 cm of textual records. -- 56 photographs : prints, tintype. -- 1 photograph album (266 prints)
- History / Biographical
- The Galletly family were residents of Canmore and Banff, Alberta, Canada. David Drummond Galletly, 1838-1916, served as caretaker and guide for the Cave and Basin hot springs, 1897-ca.1910. Previously he worked on the construction of the Banff Springs Hotel and operated a hotel in Canmore. At the Cave and Basin, Galletly conducted tours and became known for his Scottish humor. Other family members included wife Ethel, daughters Viva and Ethel (Fulscher), son-in-law Fred Fulscher, and grandchildren Ronald and Adelina Fulcher.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes D. D. Galletly and Galletly family papers and photographs.
- Textual records consist of David Galletly papers and Galletly family music. David Galletly papers include manuscripts, n.d., 1914; correspondence 1888-1907; and personal papers n.d., 1902 re early life in Canmore and Banff and the Cave and Basin. The manuscripts include scripts of Galletly's cave tours. Family music includes published sheet music and hand-drawn items. Fonds also includes newsclippings and postcards pertaining to the Galletly family, 1939-[ca.1960]; and drawing of exterior of dwelling on Lot 32, Cave and Basin Avenue, 1912, signed by D. D. Galletly, 4 p.: photocopy.
- Photographs pertain to Galletly family and friends, activities, Banff views; most are unidentified.
- Name Access
- Galletly, David Drummond
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- 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: basic description
- Creator
- Galletly, David Drummond
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
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Ostheimer expedition fonds
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- Part Of
- Ostheimer expedition fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists primarily of expedition records in four multi-media volumes. Fonds also contains lantern slides and print material. Material pertains to the 1927 Ostheimer Expedition and the 1926 advance expedition by Alfred J. Ostheimer III and John de Laittre II. It describes expedition activit…
- Date Range
- 1927-1929
- Reference Code
- M393 / V479
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Drawing
- Map
- Organization record
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Ostheimer expedition fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 393
- V 479
- Sous-Fonds
- M 393
- V 479
- Accession Number
- 2805, 2848, 2859
- Reference Code
- M393 / V479
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the 1927 Ostheimer expedition, Canadian Rockies fonds
- Date Range
- 1927-1929
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records. -- 66 photographs : transparencies
- History / Biographical
- The Ostheimer Expedition 1927 was a mountaineering and scientific expedition, led by Alfred J. Ostheimer III, 1908-1983, with fellow Harvard students John de Laittre II and W. R. Maclaurin, in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. The party completed a nine week climbing and exploration trip described as "perhaps the greatest tour de force ever accomplished in a single season in the Canadian Rockies." Party members climbed thirty-five mountains, including twenty-eight first ascents, in the region between the Athabasca River and Tsar Creek.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists primarily of expedition records in four multi-media volumes. Fonds also contains lantern slides and print material. Material pertains to the 1927 Ostheimer Expedition and the 1926 advance expedition by Alfred J. Ostheimer III and John de Laittre II. It describes expedition activities, topography, drainage, geographic names, mountains and mountaineering, geology, glaciation, flora, fauna and meteorology, etc., of the Jasper, Whirlpool, Clemenceau, Chaba and Columbia areas and is illustrated with photographs, maps and cartoons.
- Volumes titles are: 1927 Ostheimer Expedition, Canadian Rockies : Report / by Alfred J. Ostheimer III (2 v : 569 p.); 1927 Ostheimer Expedition, Canadian Rockies : Every other day / Alfred J. Ostheimer III (1 v : 312 p.); 1927 Ostheimer Expedition, Canadian Rockies : Field notes and photographs / by John de Laittre II (1 v : 562 p.).
- Notes
- Lantern slides are from an original set of sixty-six pertaining to the expedition
- Every other day : the journals of the remarkable Rocky Mountain climbs and explorations of Alfred J. Ostheimer III / R. W. Sandford and Jon Whelan (eds.), was published by The Alpine Club of Canada in 2002
- Name Access
- de Laittre II, John
- Ostheimer, Alfred J. III
- Subject Access
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Ostheimer Expedition (1927)
- 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
- basic description for processed material
- Creator
- Ostheimer, Alfred J. III
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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