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- Bruno Engler fonds 15
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- Whyte Museum Oral History Programme collection 3
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds 2
- Henry Vaux Jr. fonds 2
- Lillian Gest fonds 2
- Archives General File Collection 1
- Murray family fonds 1
- Nicholas Morant fonds 1
- O. Kathleen Wilson fonds 1
- Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds 1
- Vaux family fonds 1
- Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian) 53
- Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C. (1906 – 1979, Canadian) 21
- Bradford Washburn (1910 – , American) 10
- George Weber (1907 – 2002, Canadian) 8
- Janet Holly Middleton (1922 – 2018, Canadian) 5
- Kelsey Stephenson 5
- James (Sr.) Simpson (1877 – 1972, Canadian) 4
- Alpine Club of Canada 3
- Barbara Milne (1956 – , Canadian) 3
- Engler, Bruno 3
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- Gest, Lillian 2
Murray family fonds
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- Part Of
- Murray family fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The artic…
- Date Range
- 1887-1960
- Reference Code
- M142 / V453
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Murray family fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 142
- V 453
- Sous-Fonds
- M 142
- V 453
- Accession Number
- 450, 941
- Reference Code
- M142 / V453
- Date Range
- 1887-1960
- Physical Description
- 33 photographs : prints. -- .5 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- George Murray, 1904-1968, and Gertrude Murray, 1891-1979, were residents of Banff, Alberta, Canada. George Murray was an employee of Rocky Mountain Tours and Transport Company from 1941 until 1957 and was later employed by Brewster Transport Company. The Murrays were friends of Major F. V. (Frederick Victor) Longstaff, 1879-1961, a mountaineer, architect and historian from Victoria, B.C.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The article includes photographic illustrations of the Lake O'Hara region and the interior of Abbot Pass Hut.
- Name Access
- Murray, George
- Murray, Gertrude
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Glacier House
- 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 for photographs.
- Creator
- Murray, George
- Murray, Gertrude
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds
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- Part Of
- Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of 167 transparencies pertaining to camps, pack train, bears, sheep, moose, hunting, flowers, landscapes (Glacier Park, Mt. Mckinley Park), 1959-1963.
- Date Range
- 1959-1963
- Reference Code
- V110
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Transparency
- Part Of
- Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 110
- Sous-Fonds
- V 110
- Accession Number
- 7772 (unproc)
- Reference Code
- V110
- Date Range
- 1959-1963
- Physical Description
- 167 photographs: transparencies
- History / Biographical
- Richard "Dick" H. Russell b.1938, is one of the son's of Andy Russell and Kay Russell and grandson of Bert Riggall. Dick grew up at the Hawk's Nest ranch on the N.E. boundary of Waterton Lake National Park with his sister, Anne and three brothers, Charlie, Gordon, and John. Dick and his brother Charlie worked with Andy Russell on his documentary film "Grizzly Country," ca.1969.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of 167 transparencies pertaining to camps, pack train, bears, sheep, moose, hunting, flowers, landscapes (Glacier Park, Mt. Mckinley Park), 1959-1963.
- Name Access
- Russell, Richard H. (Dick)
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Environment
- Glacier National Park
- McKinley, Mount
- Pack trips
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- No finding aid
- Creator
- Russell, Dick
- Biographical Source Notes
- Bio file, Russell fonds
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Unprocessed
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Personal Photographs
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- Part Of
- O. Kathleen Wilson fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
- Date Range
- [ca.1916-1935]
- Reference Code
- V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
221 images
- Part Of
- O. Kathleen Wilson fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- V699
- Sous-Fonds
- V699
- Accession Number
- 3012, 3255, 3815, 3856, 3938, 3976, 4040, 5178
- Reference Code
- V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116
- Date Range
- [ca.1916-1935]
- Physical Description
- 11 photographs : prints
- History / Biographical
- O. Kathleen Wilson was employed at the Chateau Lake Louise at Lake Louise, Alberta in the 1920s.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.
- Subject Access
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Activities
- Airplanes
- Architecture
- Automobiles
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Banff townsite
- Biographical
- Buffalo
- Camps
- Castle Mountain
- Cave and Basin
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Climbing
- Clothing and dress
- Employees
- Entertainment
- First Nations
- Glacier House
- Glacier House Hotel
- Guides
- Horses
- Hotels
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Agnes Teahouse
- Landscapes
- Landslides
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Movie Stars
- Musicians
- Portrait
- Plain of Six Glacier Teahouse
- Prisoners of War
- Railways
- Royal tours
- Royal Visit
- Scenery
- Swimming
- Swiss Guides
- Teahouses
- Trains
- War
- Waterfalls
- Women
- Work
- World War I
- Tally-hos
- Geographic Access
- Lake Louise
- Glacier
- Banff National Park
- Yoho National Park
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Wilson, O. Kathleen
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed
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- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on board
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.04
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.
1 image
- Title
- Bow Glacier
- Date
- 1928
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- 29.0 x 40.0 cm
- Description
- Colour: blue, green. The lower half is green grass with evergreens along the shore of the lake which appears at left of center. The upper half is blue and purple and white mountains. Sky goes along the top.
- Credit
- Gift of Mary Hallock, Fort St. James, 1981
- Catalogue Number
- BwB.02.04
- Notes
- Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries; June 17, 2018 to October 21, 2018
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Bow Glacier Falls, 1902/2019
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- Artist
- Kelsey Stephenson
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Catalogue Number
- StK.04.05
- Description
- A colour photograph of a waterfall (Bow Glacier Falls) tumbling over a rocky ridge. Overlaid is a screenprinted drawing of previous reaches of the glacier. The bottom half of the image is cyanotype detail of the glacier from archival photographs.
1 image
- Artist
- Kelsey Stephenson
- Title
- Bow Glacier Falls, 1902/2019
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.5 x 28.8 cm
- Description
- A colour photograph of a waterfall (Bow Glacier Falls) tumbling over a rocky ridge. Overlaid is a screenprinted drawing of previous reaches of the glacier. The bottom half of the image is cyanotype detail of the glacier from archival photographs.
- Subject
- Bow Glacier
- Bow Glacier Falls
- Bow Falls
- Credit
- Gift of Kelsey Stephenson, Edmonton, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- StK.04.05
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Bow Glacier, Mount Thompson
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- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.196
1 image
- Title
- Bow Glacier, Mount Thompson
- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.3 x 30.4 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.196
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Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
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- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.28
- Description
- In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. T…
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- Title
- Bow Lake and Crowfoot Glacier
- Date
- prior to 1965
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Description
- In the foreground on the left is a small group of trees and rocky ground leading down to a waters edge. In the mid-ground on the right is another group of trees and ground that meets the water. Just behind the trees is Bow Lake and in the background are snow capped mountains and Crowfoot Glacier. The sky has many gray clouds with small areas of blue sky showing through.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Jr.) Simpson, Rocky Mountain House, 1997
- Catalogue Number
- LaC.05.28
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Glacier Park B.C. . -- 1957-1962
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- Army artillery group; snow research group; building of Abbot Observatory; Illecillewaet Glacier; Mount Tupper Hermit Hut and A.O. Wheeler hut; snowshed construction for Trans-Canada Highway; Nakimu Caves.
- Reference Code
- V190 / II.A.vii. - 3
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Series
- II.A. Main file: Alphabetical files
- Reference Code
- V190 / II.A.vii. - 3
- Physical Description
- ca.147 negatives: 9.5 x 12 cm. or smaller
- Scope & Content
- Army artillery group; snow research group; building of Abbot Observatory; Illecillewaet Glacier; Mount Tupper Hermit Hut and A.O. Wheeler hut; snowshed construction for Trans-Canada Highway; Nakimu Caves.
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada - Huts
- Avalanches
- Canada. Department of National Defence
- Glacier National Park
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Nakimu Caves
- Trans-Canada Highway
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
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Ice Cave in the Athabasca Glacier
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- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Catalogue Number
- HrD.18.05
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, the entire picture is of ice and rocks, the rocks foreground and lower left while the rest of the picture is of ice formations, colours blues with green tones in some of the rocks
1 image
- Title
- Ice Cave in the Athabasca Glacier
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- cibachrome on paper
- Dimensions
- 44.7 x 57.3 cm
- Description
- A colour photographic positive, the entire picture is of ice and rocks, the rocks foreground and lower left while the rest of the picture is of ice formations, colours blues with green tones in some of the rocks
- Subject
- landscape
- mountain
- glacier
- Athabasca Glacier
- Credit
- Purchased from Don Harmon, Banff, 1985
- Catalogue Number
- HrD.18.05
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- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.191
1 image
- Title
- Lake Louise
- Date
- 1945 – 1960
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 25.2 x 30.3 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- WyP.01.191
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