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A nostalgic view of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1962

Author: Buchanan, Donald W.

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.

Call Number: 06.4 B86a

Author: Buchanan, Donald W.

Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Steward Ltd.

Published Date: 1962

Physical Description: 45 pages II. ; 20 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Photography; Alberta; Quebec and Ontario; Canada

Abstract: In this book Donald W. Buchanan recreates the flavour of the Canada of his youth, matching a nostalgic text with his own photographs of evocative scenes from the ranches of Happy Valley, Alberta, to Kamouraska County in Quebec. -- From the publisher

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 06.4 B86a

Collection: Archives Library

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All about babies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1963

Author: Coleman, H. T. J.

Publisher: Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.

Call Number: 05.1 C68a

Author: Coleman, H. T. J.

Responsibility: Cover and illustrations E. Downing Baker

Publisher: Sidney, British Columbia : Gray's Publishing Ltd.

Published Date: 1963

Physical Description: 57 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Poetry; Literature

Abstract: A collection of childrens stories detailing a variety of animals as babies.

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05.1 C68a

Collection: Archives Library

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Science in the history of modern culture

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1963

Author: Watanabe, Masao

Publisher: Tokyo : Miraisha

Call Number: 03 W29s

Author: Watanabe, Masao

Publisher: Tokyo : Miraisha

Published Date: 1963

Physical Description: 353 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Science; Japanese; culture; Education

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 03 W29s

Collection: Archives Library

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Fenollosa and his circle

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1962

Author: Brooks, Van Wyck

Publisher: New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Call Number: 05 B79f

Author: Brooks, Van Wyck

Publisher: New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

Published Date: 1962

Physical Description: 321 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Japanese; Japan; Art; Slavery; Archaeology; Mexico; Mayan; Biography

Abstract: A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover

Contents: Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05 B79f

Collection: Archives Library

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An introduction to crystallography

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1966

Author: Phillips, F. C.

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd

Call Number: 03 P54a

Author: Phillips, F. C.

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green and Co Ltd

Published Date: 1966

Physical Description: 340 pages : 535 diagrams

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Crystallography; Geology; Science

Contents: 1. The nature of the crystalline state -- 2. Methods of projection -- 3. The description of crystals -- 4. A general study of the seven crystal systems -- 5. Goniometry -- 6. The thirty-two classes -- 7. Parallel growth and composite crystals -- 8. Some mathematical relationships -- 9. Crystal drawings -- 10. The symmetry of internal structure -- 11. Space groups -- 12. Diffraction of x-rays by crystals -- 13. Crystal habit

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 P54a

Collection: Archives Library

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Principles of stratigraphy

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1966

Author: Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John

Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Call Number: 03 D91p

Author: Dunbar, Carl O. and Rodgers, John

Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Published Date: 1966

Physical Description: 356 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: stratigraphy; Geology

Abstract: Carl O. Dunbar and John Rodgers authored this textbook in response to the growing interest in the study of stratigraphy in academia.

Contents: Part I : Environments of deposition -- Part 2 : Basic stratigraphic relations -- Part 3 : Interpretation of specific lithotopes -- Part 4 : Synthesis

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 D91p

Collection: Archives Library

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Intoduction to the structure of the earth

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1969

Author: Spencer, Edgar W.

Publisher: New York : McGraw Book Company

Call Number: 03 S3i

Author: Spencer, Edgar W.

Publisher: New York : McGraw Book Company

Published Date: 1969

Physical Description: 597 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Geology

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Concepts of stress and strain -- 3. Theory and rock failure -- fracture -- 4. Faults -- 5. Behavior of materials -- 6. Folds and folding -- 7. Clevage, mullion, rodding, kinks, and boudinage -- 8. Primary sedimentary structures -- 9. Structures in unconsolidated sediment and salt -- 10. Earth's interior and major crustal elements -- 11. The North American continental craton and its stable margin -- 12. A case study of an orogenic belt -- the Alps -- 13. Anatomy of a folded mountain belt -- the Appalachians -- 14. Structural features of the North American cordillera -- 15. Sturctural features of the ocean basins -- 16. Examples of modern diatrophism -- 17. Tectonic syntheses

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 03 S3i

Collection: Archives Library

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Through the heart of Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1913

Author: Yeigh, Frank

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Edition: 2nd Edition, 4th Impression

Call Number: 02.4 Ye3 1913 (Great Britain)

Author: Yeigh, Frank

Edition: 2nd Edition, 4th Impression

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Published Date: 1913

Physical Description: 319p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Camps

Accession Number: 400

Call Number: 02.4 Ye3 1913 (Great Britain)

Collection: Archives Library

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In praise of Switzerland : being the alps in prose and verse

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1912

Author: Spender, Harold

Publisher: London : Constable and Company Ltd.

Call Number: 05 Sp3i

Author: Spender, Harold

Publisher: London : Constable and Company Ltd.

Published Date: 1912

Physical Description: 291 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Literature; Poetry; History; Fiction

Contents: I. The Alps in admiration -- II. The Alps in description -- III. The Alps in adventure, i. The pioneers, ii. The heroes -- The Alps in tragedy -- The Alps in comedy -- The Alps in history -- The Alps in fiction

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 05 Sp3i

Collection: Archives Library

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Flora of Southern British Columbia and Vancouver Island

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1915

Author: Henry, Joseph Kaye

Publisher: Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited

Call Number: 04.1 H39f

Author: Henry, Joseph Kaye

Publisher: Toronto : W. J. Gage & Co., Limited

Published Date: 1915

Physical Description: 363 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Botany; Glossary; British Columbia

Contents: Abbreviations, metric system -- Analytical key to the families -- Tabular analysis -- flora -- glossary -- addenda -- index.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 04.1 H39f

Collection: Archives Library

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Ski-runs in the high Alps

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1913

Author: Roget, F. F.

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Call Number: 01.5 R63s

Author: Roget, F. F.

Responsibility: Illustrations by L. M. Crisp

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Published Date: 1913

Physical Description: 312 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Skiing; Education; Alps; Switzerland; Skiing, Cross Country; Ski mountaineering

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.5 R63s

Collection: Archives Library

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Athletic Patch

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Date: 1963

Material: fabric; fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0173

Description: “BANFF 1963 CANADIAN JUNIOR SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS”; Blue white and red embroidery on a white base. Mountains in background and a red flag with blue outline with “Banff” (in white) on it flapping in the wind, attached to a red ski pole. Along the bottom in all capitals reads”CANADIAN JUNIOR SKI CHAMPION…

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Title: Athletic Patch

Date: 1963

Material: fabric; fibre

Dimensions: 5.1 x 8.4 cm

Description: “BANFF 1963 CANADIAN JUNIOR SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS”; Blue white and red embroidery on a white base. Mountains in background and a red flag with blue outline with “Banff” (in white) on it flapping in the wind, attached to a red ski pole. Along the bottom in all capitals reads”CANADIAN JUNIOR SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS” in black. A light blue outline along the entirety of the patch.

Subject: Banff; ski; 1963; mountains; patch; embroidery; ski championship

Credit: Gift of Elmer Charlton, Banff, 2008

Catalogue Number: 103.09.0173

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Meat Pudding

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Date: 1910 – 1930

Material: ceramic;

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0267

Description: Beige ceramic pudding “Quick-Cooker.” Consists of a narrow, deep bowl with a hollow central funnel and a lid with a central hole. Both the bowl and the lid have instructions and advertisements [for other Grimwades products] throughout the insides and outsides. The bowl has four notches on the botto…

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Title: Meat Pudding

Date: 1910 – 1930

Material: ceramic;

Dimensions: 13.5 cm

Description: Beige ceramic pudding “Quick-Cooker.” Consists of a narrow, deep bowl with a hollow central funnel and a lid with a central hole. Both the bowl and the lid have instructions and advertisements [for other Grimwades products] throughout the insides and outsides. The bowl has four notches on the bottom and the lid has four corresponding notches in the rim where two loops of string fit to hold the lid in place while cooking.According to the instructions throughout, these bowls were used predominantly for “meat puddings” - the central funnel serves like a bundt pan in order to evenly cook the pudding.

Subject: Crosby family; Abegweit; kitchen utensils; cooking tools

Credit: Gift of Robert Crosby Family, Banff, 1998

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0267

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Grater

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Date: 1910 – 1950

Material: metal;

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0280

Description: Cylindrical metal grater with a handle on top. The cylinder is divided into three surfaces: large holes, small holes, and standard cheese grater.

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Title: Grater

Date: 1910 – 1950

Material: metal;

Dimensions: 21.8 cm

Description: Cylindrical metal grater with a handle on top. The cylinder is divided into three surfaces: large holes, small holes, and standard cheese grater.

Subject: kitchen utensils; food preparation;

Credit: Gift of Bill Mather, Edmonton, 1991

Catalogue Number: 104.19.0280

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Toy Camera

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Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: plastic; metal;

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0121

Description: A black plastic double lens reflex Bedford Flex camera. The camera takes 4x4 exposures but due to its poor quality was not considered a real twin lens reflex camera by many professional photographers - it would be better suited for amateurs or as a toy. The camera has the pop-open top viewfinder, t…

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Title: Toy Camera

Date: 1960 – 1970

Material: plastic; metal;

Dimensions: 11.0 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm

Description: A black plastic double lens reflex Bedford Flex camera. The camera takes 4x4 exposures but due to its poor quality was not considered a real twin lens reflex camera by many professional photographers - it would be better suited for amateurs or as a toy. The camera has the pop-open top viewfinder, two front-facing lenses with a black rubber lens cap, and a plastic carry strap attached to two metal brackets on either side of the camera.

Subject: Nicholas Morant; photography; camera; toy camera

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0121

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Loader Film

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Date: prior to 1980

Material: plastic; metal; paper

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0223

Description: A black plastic 35mm film loader with orange knobs and cranks. It is tear dropped shaped. On one side of the loader is an orange crank and on the other side is multiple parts. There is an orange knob that turns, an orange latch that twists back and forward to lock the bottom of the film loader in p…

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Title: Loader Film

Date: prior to 1980

Material: plastic; metal; paper

Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.1 x 17.6 cm

Description: A black plastic 35mm film loader with orange knobs and cranks. It is tear dropped shaped. On one side of the loader is an orange crank and on the other side is multiple parts. There is an orange knob that turns, an orange latch that twists back and forward to lock the bottom of the film loader in place, an orange knob with numbers from 0 to 35 (in increments of 5), cut into the side is a window to a dial with white numbers on black text, there is a larger orange knob which twists that features orange text reads “OPEN ONLY TO REPLACE BULK FILM”, and and another black flat circle that twists with black text that reads “TO INSERT CASSETTE”, two solid triangles pointed up, and “TO LOAD FILM”. On the bottom of the where the film canister is loaded is a box with text inside, it reads “COMPUTROL 35 mm film loader RESTEM Ltd. T.A. Made in Israel”. There is an instruction manual with the film loader which features lots of text, sketches of the loader, and diagrams of use.

Subject: film photography; photography accessories; 35mm film; Computrol; photography

Credit: Gift of L. A. E Duncan, Calgary, 1980

Catalogue Number: 104.41.0223

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Field Telephone

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Date: 1960 – 1979

Material: metal; plastic; fabric

Catalogue Number: 105.04.0007

Description: Northern Electric Field Telephone in metal container. The telephone handle, power cords, and rolled-up carry strap all housed inside the container. Adhered to the inside of the lid is a paper label demonstrating the electrical circuitry and stencilled on the top of the lid is “SS 2734” in black pai…

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Title: Field Telephone

Date: 1960 – 1979

Material: metal; plastic; fabric

Dimensions: 23.7 x 13.1 x 18.2 cm

Description: Northern Electric Field Telephone in metal container. The telephone handle, power cords, and rolled-up carry strap all housed inside the container. Adhered to the inside of the lid is a paper label demonstrating the electrical circuitry and stencilled on the top of the lid is “SS 2734” in black paint. There are thin metal brackets on both short sides to feed the fabric strap through. The hinged lid opens by pressing a black rubber button on one short side. This model telephone often used by Canadian Pacific Railway when all other forms of communication failed.

Subject: Nicholas Morant; Canadian Pacific Railway; communication equipment; field telephone

Credit: Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006

Catalogue Number: 105.04.0007

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Tin Box

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Date: 1968

Material: metal;

Catalogue Number: 110.01.0304

Description: A small blue tin with an intricately designed label printed onto the tin with lots of rust. The label reads “EDGEWORTH EXTRA HIGH GRADE PLUG SLICE SMOKING TOBACCO” and a scroll at the bottom that reads “LARUS & BRO.CO. RICHMOND, VA.U.S.A.” The tin lid hinges at the back of the tin, when opened ther…

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Title: Tin Box

Date: 1968

Material: metal;

Dimensions: 2.0 x 5.5 x 8.0 cm

Description: A small blue tin with an intricately designed label printed onto the tin with lots of rust. The label reads “EDGEWORTH EXTRA HIGH GRADE PLUG SLICE SMOKING TOBACCO” and a scroll at the bottom that reads “LARUS & BRO.CO. RICHMOND, VA.U.S.A.” The tin lid hinges at the back of the tin, when opened there is text on the lid, some of the writing is blocked by rust but what can be deciphered reads “To the Consumers of High Grade Tobaccos..We desire to” “your special attention to EDGEWORTH TOBACCO” “the best combination that can be made only finest selection of leaf” “used. Every box of” “is” “not to burn the tongue and to give satisfaction.” “We will cheerfully refund money to any dissatisfied purchaser.” “LARUS & BRO CO., Richmond”. There is also text on the bottom of the tin but it is undecipherable due to rust.

Subject: tobacco; smoking; tin

Credit: Gift of Harold McBride Mortimer, Banff, 1995

Catalogue Number: 110.01.0304

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Trading Post taxidermy photographs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of black and white negatives depicting Trading Post exteriors, interiors, taxidermy specimens and skulls, including coyotes, pronghorn, elk, caribou, bighorn sheep, bison, birds, mountain goats, and musk ox. The file also consists of regalia, staged environmental wildlife taxidermy ph…

Date Range: [ca.1905] [1910s]

Reference Code: LUX / I / C4 / 29 / NA - 1 to NA - 49

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / C : Business, Legal and Financial

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / C4 : Topical files

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / C4 / 29 / NA - 1 to NA - 49

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: [ca.1905] [1910s]

Physical Description: 49 photographs : b&w negatives ; 11 x 6.6 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of black and white negatives depicting Trading Post exteriors, interiors, taxidermy specimens and skulls, including coyotes, pronghorn, elk, caribou, bighorn sheep, bison, birds, mountain goats, and musk ox. The file also consists of regalia, staged environmental wildlife taxidermy photographs and sheep in a pasture [potentially with young mountain goats].

Name Access: Luxton, Norman

Subject Access: Animals; Businesses; Taxidermy; Regalia

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Trading Post photographs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of black and white negatives depicting Indian Trading Post activities and contents such as buffalo and bighorn sheep taxidermy, moose antlers, wolf pelt, figurine tableaus, Indigenous art, and the merman and portraits of Norman Luxton, Bill Round Sr. and Luxton's dogs. The buffalo tax…

Date Range: 1903; 1940; 1936; 1920; [ca. 1930-1949]

Reference Code: LUX / I / C4 / 30 / NA - 1 to NA - 50

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Negative

52 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / C : Business, Legal and Financial

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / C4 : Topical files

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / C4 / 30 / NA - 1 to NA - 50

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: 1903; 1940; 1936; 1920; [ca. 1930-1949]

Physical Description: 50 photographs : b&w negatives ; 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of black and white negatives depicting Indian Trading Post activities and contents such as buffalo and bighorn sheep taxidermy, moose antlers, wolf pelt, figurine tableaus, Indigenous art, and the merman and portraits of Norman Luxton, Bill Round Sr. and Luxton's dogs. The buffalo taxidermy includes an annotated envelope from the Sanitarium Hotel addressed to George Paris. The wolf pelt is annotated as from July 1920 and measures 7'4".