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Ostheimer expedition fonds

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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
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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
GMD
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Textual record
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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
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Exploration, discovery and travel
Ostheimer Expedition (1927)
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Language
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Ostheimer, Alfred J. III
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Exploration, discovery and travel
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