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Fires of driftwood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25550
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Ecclestone Mackay, Isabel
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Call Number
- 05.1 E2f
- Author
- Ecclestone Mackay, Isabel
- Responsibility
- With Decorations by J. E. H. Macdonald
- Publisher
- Toronto : McClelland and Stewart
- Published Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- 139 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Abstract
- As the flames playing about the burning driftwood logs weave together many beautiful shades and colorings, so in this collection of verse, the author presents many delightful phases of fancy and imagination, skilful tone-colorings and word melodies. Mrs. Mackay has a sensitive ear for the music of words and an instinctive feeling for rhythm. She has both imagination and humor, and a keen appreciation of the wonderful and the beautiful. Many of the lyrics in this collection have a universal emotional appeal while others reproduce with accuracy and fidelity a distinctively Canadian background and atmosphere. The author's many admirers will eagerly welcome this volume. -- From interior dust jacket
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 05.1 E2f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The downfall of Temlaham
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25557
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1928
- Author
- Barbeau, Marius
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23t
- Author
- Barbeau, Marius
- Responsibility
- Illustations by A. Y. Jackson, Edwin H. Holgate, W. Langdon Kihn, Emily Carr and Annie D. Savage
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Macmillian Company of Canada Limited
- Published Date
- 1928
- Physical Description
- xii, 253 pages, 1 leaf color frontispiece, color plates 23 cm
- Abstract
- A novel based on the Skeena River Rebellion of 1886, interwoven with the Gitksan legend of Temlaham.
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 07.2 B23t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An atlas of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25563
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Philip, George
- Publisher
- London : Robert Riviére & Son
- Edition
- 15
- Call Number
- 03.1 P53a
- Author
- Philip, George
- Responsibility
- Ravenstein, E. G.
- Edition
- 15
- Publisher
- London : Robert Riviére & Son
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 94 pages
- Series
- The Reference Library
- Subjects
- Cartography
- Maps
- Atlases
- World
- World War I
- Contents
- Section I: Maps ; Section II: Descriptive and Statistical Notes and Index
- Notes
- The HANDY VOLUME ATLAS OF THE WORLD has long enjoyed a large measure of popularity as the most complete and accurate Compendium of Geographical Information of its size published. The evidence of this continued popularity lies in the fact that, since it was first produced under the Editorship of the eminent Geographer, the late Dr. E. G. Ravenstein, no fewer than fourteen large editions have been issued. In this, the FIFTEENTH EDITION, the present Editor has endeavoured to deserve a continuance of that popularity, by making the new issue of the Atlas a complete SURVEY of POST-WAR GEOGRAPHY, exhibiting, in their natural order, the territorial changes and political changes throughout the World effected by the Peace Treaties and Agreements following the Great War. -- Excerpt from Preface, p. v
- Accession Number
- 3069A
- Call Number
- 03.1 P53a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Beyond the rockies : three thousand miles by trail and canoe through little-known British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26158
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 02.5 J64b
- Author
- Johnston, Lukin
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London ; Toronto : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1929
- Physical Description
- 212 pages ; 52 ill.
- Contents
- Foreword -- I. In which we discover an island eden in the Gulf of Georgia -- II. We explore Galiano, Pender and Salt Spring Islands -- III. Over the Cariboo highway--A foot and otherwise -- IV. In which a bishop comes to the rescue -- V. A "hobo's" adventures by the way -- VI. A sky-pilot among the enchanted islands of the British Columbia coast -- VII. Barkerville--The town of a thousand golden memories -- VIII. Chilcotin--Heart of the great British Columbia cattle country -- IX. Secrets in the great north -- X. Prince George and historic Fort St. James -- XI. Trappers, traders and pioneer settlers -- XII. Romantic trails of northern British Columbia -- XIII. The bridge river valley -- XIV. Waterways of the great north -- XV. Down the Peace--From finlay forks to old Fort St. John -- XVI. Peace River--The Last great west -- XVII. Taming the northern wilderness--The Story of sixteen years.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 02.5 J64b
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- Archives Library
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Tales of western mountaineer : a record of mountain experiences on the Pacific coast
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26159
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 309 pages ; 40 ill.
- Abstract
- This is a book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, arêtes, snow cornices, avalanches, -- everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the genuine alpine sort. Excerpt from dustjacket.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
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- Archives Library
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The art & sport of alpine photography
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26162
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Gardner, Arthur
- Publisher
- London : H. F. and G. Witherby
- Call Number
- 06.4 G17t
- Author
- Gardner, Arthur
- Publisher
- London : H. F. and G. Witherby
- Published Date
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 234 pages ; 150 ill.
- Subjects
- Photography
- Alpine Photography
- Contents
- I. Stating the case -- II. On composition and foregrounds -- III. Weather, lighting and seasons -- IV. Mountain portraits -- V. Conclusion
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 06.4 G17t
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- Archives Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1886
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Published Date
- 1886
- Physical Description
- 260 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Europe
- Alps
- Mountaineering
- Glaciers
- Nature
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
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- Archives Library
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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26171
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1889
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
- Responsibility
- A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.
- Publisher
- New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.
- Published Date
- 1889
- Physical Description
- 148 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Italy
- Europe
- Alps
- glaciology
- Glaciers
- Geology
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03.4 R14u
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- Archives Library
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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26173
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1885
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Published Date
- 1885
- Physical Description
- 327 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
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- Archives Library
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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal; aluminum;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1293
- Description
- Small aluminum pepper shaker with a narrow weighted base, wide central body, and tapered top with a screw-cap covered in holes throughout. The top of the cap and the interior stained pale brown. Shaker is empty.
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- Title
- Pepper Shaker
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal; aluminum;
- Dimensions
- 6.6 cm
- Description
- Small aluminum pepper shaker with a narrow weighted base, wide central body, and tapered top with a screw-cap covered in holes throughout. The top of the cap and the interior stained pale brown. Shaker is empty.
- Subject
- kitchen utensils
- seasonings
- house ware
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1293
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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- glass; metal; aluminum;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1294
- Description
- Glass and aluminum salt shaker with a weighted glass bottom, wide central body, and tapered top with a screw-cap covered in holes. Shaker is empty.
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- Title
- Salt Shaker
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- glass; metal; aluminum;
- Dimensions
- 6.5 cm
- Description
- Glass and aluminum salt shaker with a weighted glass bottom, wide central body, and tapered top with a screw-cap covered in holes. Shaker is empty.
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1294
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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1295
- Description
- Metal eggcup with a hollow base and fluted stand below the cup, which has a slightly curved-out lip.
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- Title
- Eggcup
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal;
- Dimensions
- 5.9 cm
- Description
- Metal eggcup with a hollow base and fluted stand below the cup, which has a slightly curved-out lip.
- Subject
- kitchen utensils
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1295
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; steel; wood;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1298 a,b
- Description
- Two kitchen knives with steel blades and wooden handles - the handles have three brass studs each. One knife has a thicker blade that curves slightly and has a small raised reinforcement before the handle - stamped on one side near the handle is a head wearing a hat and scarf that has “LA DUROLLIEN…
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- Title
- Kitchen Knife
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- metal; steel; wood;
- Dimensions
- 1.7 x 2.3 x 32.5 cm
- Description
- Two kitchen knives with steel blades and wooden handles - the handles have three brass studs each. One knife has a thicker blade that curves slightly and has a small raised reinforcement before the handle - stamped on one side near the handle is a head wearing a hat and scarf that has “LA DUROLLIENNE” written on it. The other knife’s blade has been sharpened so much it appears to be less than half of its original width - faded remnants of something stamped on the blade is visible, but illegible.
- Subject
- kitchen utensils
- cooking
- food preparation;
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1298 a,b
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- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- glass;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1301
- Description
- Two-part glass butter dish with a shallow base and deeper lid, both pieces have decorative beveling throughout the sides and on the top. Engraved into the base is “BOTTOM,” legible when the lid is removed - the base also has small handles that stick out from the short sides.
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- Title
- Butter Dish
- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- glass;
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 16.7 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Two-part glass butter dish with a shallow base and deeper lid, both pieces have decorative beveling throughout the sides and on the top. Engraved into the base is “BOTTOM,” legible when the lid is removed - the base also has small handles that stick out from the short sides.
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1301
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- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- ceramic;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1302
- Description
- White ceramic gravy boat with gold gilding along the rim, down the handle, and around the middle - also on the middle are gilded flowers, one on each side. There is no makers mark.
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- Title
- Gravy Boat
- Date
- 1920 – 1960
- Material
- ceramic;
- Dimensions
- 10. x 8.7 x 19.3 cm
- Description
- White ceramic gravy boat with gold gilding along the rim, down the handle, and around the middle - also on the middle are gilded flowers, one on each side. There is no makers mark.
- Subject
- kitchen utensils
- dining utensils;
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.20.1302
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- straw; metal; string;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0016
- Description
- Small straw whisk broom bound at the top with four groupings of metal wire and capped with a metal cap and attached loop. Remnants of beige and green string visible in the middle of the bristles, which are mostly frayed and broken.
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- Title
- Whisk Broom
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- straw; metal; string;
- Dimensions
- 3.6 x 7.6 x 19.5 cm
- Description
- Small straw whisk broom bound at the top with four groupings of metal wire and capped with a metal cap and attached loop. Remnants of beige and green string visible in the middle of the bristles, which are mostly frayed and broken.
- Subject
- household utensils
- cleaning utensils;
- Credit
- Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991
- Catalogue Number
- 104.23.0016
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- Date
- 1889 – 1945
- Material
- metal; glass; leather;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0181
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout…
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- Title
- Camera
- Date
- 1889 – 1945
- Material
- metal; glass; leather;
- Dimensions
- 19.7 x 20.0 x 14.4 cm
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal 4x6 Curt Bentzin Görlitz camera with a fold-down front panel that exposes the lens and bellows, a leather handle and two adjustment knobs on one side, a pop-up view finder on top, and fold-out leather flaps that access the exposure plate. Small metal levers throughout allow different panels in the camera to open - three holes along the bottom [one on the body of the camera and two on the fold-down lens plate] allow the camera to be mounted on a tripod.
- Subject
- Crosby family
- Abegweit
- cameras
- photography;
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0181
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- Date
- 1927 – 1946
- Material
- metal; glass; leather; paper;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0182 a,b
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal hand-held Ciné-Kodak Model K 16mm film camera with a leather handle and two view finders on top, hand crank and trigger on the right hand side, lens and instruction plate on the front, and a metal switch on the left-hand side that allows the panel to come off in order…
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- Title
- Movie Camera
- Date
- 1927 – 1946
- Material
- metal; glass; leather; paper;
- Dimensions
- 12.7 x 6.2 x 23.6 cm
- Description
- Black leather and silver metal hand-held Ciné-Kodak Model K 16mm film camera with a leather handle and two view finders on top, hand crank and trigger on the right hand side, lens and instruction plate on the front, and a metal switch on the left-hand side that allows the panel to come off in order to access the film reels. Also comes with an instruction manual for “Making the Most” of the camera with more Ciné-Kodak leaflets tucked into the back cover.
- Credit
- Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0182 a,b
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Photographic Paper
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- Date
- 1922
- Material
- cardboard; paper;
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0224
- Description
- A heavy beige box of photographic paper. The box is plain with little branding, one label on the top and a label along one side that connects to the bottom of the box. The label on the lid is black text in a square, it reads “OPEN ONLY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC DARK ROOM SENSITIZED PAPER”, a black line, and …
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- Title
- Photographic Paper
- Date
- 1922
- Material
- cardboard; paper;
- Dimensions
- 9.2 x 18.7 x 15.5 cm
- Description
- A heavy beige box of photographic paper. The box is plain with little branding, one label on the top and a label along one side that connects to the bottom of the box. The label on the lid is black text in a square, it reads “OPEN ONLY IN PHOTOGRAPHIC DARK ROOM SENSITIZED PAPER”, a black line, and “Manufactured by Canadian Kodak Co., Limited TORONTO, CANADA”. The other label is coloured with a white background, blue banner, and green text which reads “GLOSSY DOUBLE WEIGHT 500 POST CARDS AZO F No. 4”. In the blue banner with a black border in white text reads “No. 4 FOR EXTREMELY FLAT NEGATIVES”. There is a stamped text that reads “EXPIRES JULY 1, 1922”. The bottom part of the label that is on the bottom of the box reads “500 POST CARDS AZO F No. 4 GLOSSY DOUBLE WEIGHT”. The bottom of the box features so handwriting and a stamped text that reads “5510 7034 46”. Inside the box is lots of post card photographic paper, some is wrapped in black paper.
- Credit
- Gift of L. A. E Duncan, Calgary, 1980
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.0224
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Film Projector
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- Date
- ca. 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal; cable; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0044
- Description
- A black, heavy, cast iron-like Apollo Sound 16mm film projector. It has a unique shape with an art deco type styling. One side of the projector features a switch and silver metal knobs where the tightly coiled spring would be placed to move the film. There is a label with instruction but is illegib…
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- Title
- Film Projector
- Date
- ca. 1930 – 1950
- Material
- metal; cable; glass
- Dimensions
- 37.2 x 14.8 x 38.3 cm
- Description
- A black, heavy, cast iron-like Apollo Sound 16mm film projector. It has a unique shape with an art deco type styling. One side of the projector features a switch and silver metal knobs where the tightly coiled spring would be placed to move the film. There is a label with instruction but is illegible due to wear, herringbone-shaped cut-outs below that expose some of the mechanisms of the projector, next to these cut-outs is where the power cord connects to the projector, and towards the front of the projector is another cord that becomes wire that is wrapped around a smaller spool. Along the back side, in raised letters, text reads “APOLLO [vertical] SOUND [horizontal]”. On the very back of the projector are two switches and a black knob that props the back of the projector up slightly. The other side of the projector is the same raised text that reads “APOLLO [vertical] SOUND [horizontal]” near the back, and there is also a a sloped pattern cut-out near the bottom that exposes the fan of the projector. This side features the main part of the projector with the lens, reels, and the track for the film. The top of the projector features a handle-like design.
- Subject
- film
- 16mm film
- projector
- Apollo Sound
- Credit
- Gift of Dan MacDonald, Calgary, 1993
- Catalogue Number
- 105.05.0044
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