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Alfred Crocker Leighton fonds

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Part Of: Alfred Crocker Leighton fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds includes a trip account re Mount Assiniboine, by A. C. Leighton, 1927; biographies and curriculum vitae; reviews and articles; excerpts from publications depicting Leighton paintings and illustrations, 1924-1952; and photographs of portraits and mountain painting activities of A. C. Leighton.

Date Range: Copies made 1971, 1981

Reference Code: M214 / V727

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Part Of: Alfred Crocker Leighton fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 214; V 727

Sous-Fonds: M214 / V727

Accession Number: 1276, 3469

Reference Code: M214 / V727

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: Copies made 1971, 1981

Physical Description: .5 cm of textual records. -- 8 photographs : copy negatives

History / Biographical: Alfred Crocker Leighton, 1901-1965, was an artist in England and at Calgary and Millarville, Alberta, Canada. By 1924, Leighton was supplying commercial art to the Canadian Pacific Railway. He visited Canada in 1925 and 1927, painting in the Canadian Rockies on both occasions. In 1929, Leighton became Art Director at the Institute of Technology and Art at Calgary and conducted summer art schools during the early thirties at the Kananaskis Dude Ranch. He was an active artist of the Canadian Rockies. In later years, he resided near Millarville.

Scope & Content: Fonds includes a trip account re Mount Assiniboine, by A. C. Leighton, 1927; biographies and curriculum vitae; reviews and articles; excerpts from publications depicting Leighton paintings and illustrations, 1924-1952; and photographs of portraits and mountain painting activities of A. C. Leighton.

Name Access: Leighton, Alfred Crocker

Subject Access: Arts

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: modern reference prints

Creator: Leighton, Alfred Crocker

Category: Arts

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

Processing Status: Processed

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Natural landscapes, winter sports, Woodworth and Kidney families

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 25 photographs [most loose, some with matboards/backings, one in book-style folder]. Content pertains mostly to natural landscapes, plants, wildlife, mountain scenes, etc. in the Canadian Rockies. Other photographs pertain to 1912 Banff Midgets hockey team, RCMP officers, Jack Kidn…

Date Range: [ca. 1900]; 1912; [ca. 1920]; [ca. 1935 - ca. 1940]; 1978

Reference Code: V324 / IV / E / PA - 145 to 165

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M74 / V324

Series: V324 / IV : Family, friends and community records

Sous-Fonds: V324

Sub-Series: V324 / IV / E : Maude Kidney Collection

Accession Number: 3109

Reference Code: V324 / IV / E / PA - 145 to 165

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Some photographs produced by Jack D. Anderson Jr.

Date Range: [ca. 1900]; 1912; [ca. 1920]; [ca. 1935 - ca. 1940]; 1978

Physical Description: 25 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 23 x 28 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of 25 photographs [most loose, some with matboards/backings, one in book-style folder]. Content pertains mostly to natural landscapes, plants, wildlife, mountain scenes, etc. in the Canadian Rockies. Other photographs pertain to 1912 Banff Midgets hockey team, RCMP officers, Jack Kidney and friends [ca. 1935], Freddie Hare visiting Forest Kidney at Mineral Springs Hospital in 1978, an ice sculpture by Charlie Beil outside of the Mount Royal Hotel, an early elementary school class photograph [ca. 1900?], and Fred Woodworth's World War I memorial in Ypres.

Notes: File contains duplicates; Photographs in this file were accompanied by notes made shortly before or after accession in 1979 giving names/contextual information about photographs. Some notes are by Jim Deegan, 1987. Information has been transferred to the back of each photograph.