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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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One step beyond : rediscovering the adventure attitude
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1992
- Author
- Hobson, Alan
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 H65
- Author
- Hobson, Alan
- Responsibility
- based on the ideas of John Amatt
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude Publishing
- Published Date
- 1992
- Physical Description
- 360p. : ports
- ISBN
- 0-919381-06-5
- Accession Number
- 25000
- Call Number
- 01 H65
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Banks, Michael
- Publisher
- London : Secker & Warburg
- Call Number
- DS486 R32 B3
- Author
- Banks, Michael
- Publisher
- London : Secker & Warburg
- Published Date
- 1959
- Subjects
- British-American Karakoram Expedition (1956)
- British-Pakistani Forces Himalayan Expedition (1958)
- Call Number
- DS486 R32 B3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Summit tales : early adventures in the Canadian Rockies
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Canmore : Altitude Publishing
- Call Number
- 01.4 P75s
- Author
- Pole, Graeme
- Publisher
- Canmore : Altitude Publishing
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 112p. ill., maps
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Brown, Mount
- Expedition, ACC-Smithsonian
- Expedition, Ostheimer
- Hooker, Mount
- Mountain guides
- Outfitters, trail guides, packers
- Photography
- Notes
- Topics include: phototopography, mountaineers (Gertrude Benham, A.P. Coleman, J. Norman Collie, Charles Fay, W.O. Field, Jean Habel, George Kinney, James Outram, Hugh Stutfield, Charles Thompson, J. Monroe Thorington, Arthur Oliver Wheeler, Edward Whymper, and Walter Wilcox)
- ISBN
- 1 55153 937 3
- Accession Number
- 7584 (2 copies - 1 in reference room)
- 7899
- Call Number
- 01.4 P75s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Aconcagua : South face
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1956
- Author
- Ferlet, Rene
- Publisher
- London : Constable
- Call Number
- F2851 F4
- Author
- Ferlet, Rene
- Responsibility
- by Rene Ferlet and Guy Poulet
- Publisher
- London : Constable
- Published Date
- 1956
- Call Number
- F2851 F4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alberta centennial 1905-2005
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize
- Responsibility
- with a message from the Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein
- Publisher
- Government of Alberta; Sun Media corporation
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 68p. : ill
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Bedaux Expedition
- Crime
- Film making
- Immigration
- Indians
- Medicine
- Meteorology
- Place names
- Politics
- Railways
- Sports
- Notes
- Magazine supplement to Banff Crag and Canyon newspaper with articles pertaining to the history of Alberta
- Call Number
- 08.2 Al1c Pam oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alfred Gregory's Everest...
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Author
- Gregory, Alfred
- Publisher
- London : Constable
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 G74 A4
- Author
- Gregory, Alfred
- Responsibility
- with a foreword by Jan Morris
- Publisher
- London : Constable
- Published Date
- 1993
- Subjects
- Mount Everest Expedition (1953)
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 G74 A4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The amazing world of James Hector
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Wellington New Zealand : AWA Press
- Call Number
- 08 H35a
- Responsibility
- edited by Simon Nathan and Mary Varnham
- with an introduction by Hamish Cambell
- Publisher
- Wellington New Zealand : AWA Press
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 185p. : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Botany
- Palliser Expedition
- Notes
- Cover title: The amazing world of James Hector : explorer, doctor, geologist, botanist, natural historian, and one of New Zealand's most remarkable figures. Partial contents: Surveying Canada; Plant and animal names that commemorate James Hector
- ISBN
- 978-0-9582750-7-1
- Accession Number
- 50500 09-02-04
- Call Number
- 08 H35a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Americans climb K2
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- Physical Description
- p.623-650 : ill., ports, maps
- Subjects
- American K2 Expedition (1978)
- Notes
- From National Geographic, May 1979
- Contents : The ultimate challenge / James W. Whitaker ; On to the summit / James Wickwire
- Call Number
- DS485 K2 A5 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Andes of southern Peru : geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1916
- Author
- Bowman, Isaiah
- Publisher
- New York : Holt
- Call Number
- GB165 B6
- Author
- Bowman, Isaiah
- Publisher
- New York : Holt
- Published Date
- 1916
- Subjects
- Geology
- Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911)
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- GB165 B6
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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