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Staged, copyright and published trail riders photographs

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Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 12 b&w photographs pertaining to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Includes staged photographs of riders on horseback and scenic views of the Canadian Rockies. Most images annotated with return address of Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies on back [copyrighted photographs…

Date Range: [ca. 1960 - ca. 1980]

Reference Code: V635 / III / PA - 1 to 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M545 / V635

Series: V635 / III : Published records

Sous-Fonds: V635

Accession Number: 5757

Reference Code: V635 / III / PA - 1 to 12

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: One photograph copyright of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau

Date Range: [ca. 1960 - ca. 1980]

Physical Description: 12 photographs : b&w prints ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 12 b&w photographs pertaining to the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Includes staged photographs of riders on horseback and scenic views of the Canadian Rockies. Most images annotated with return address of Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies on back [copyrighted photographs?], and one with text on back identifying it as property of the Canadian Government Travel Bureau. Locations include Monarch Ridge, "Pul. Pass", and Mount Assiniboine Park.

Notes: Most photographs in this file were likely produced and/or used for publication purposes but this is not confirmed. Further research into origins of individual photographs required.

Subject Access: Horses; Trails; Travel; Tourism; Mountain; Landscapes; Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Monarch Ridge; Mount Assiniboine Park

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Sports, recreation and leisure; Environment; Government

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Black and white Canadian Pacific prints

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Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 54 black and white prints pertaining to trail rides and tourism in areas including Peyto Lake, Wolverine Plateau, Scarab Lake, Lake Louise, Banff Springs Hotel and other scenic areas around Banff townsite. Photographs were produced by Canadian Pacific for publication and advertisin…

Date Range: 1940; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1950]

Reference Code: V635 / III / PA - 13 to 66

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

8 images

Part Of: Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M545 / V635

Series: V635 / III : Published records

Sous-Fonds: V635

Accession Number: 5757

Reference Code: V635 / III / PA - 13 to 66

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Produced by Canadian Pacific

Date Range: 1940; [ca. 1940 - ca. 1950]

Physical Description: 54 photographs : b&w prints ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of 54 black and white prints pertaining to trail rides and tourism in areas including Peyto Lake, Wolverine Plateau, Scarab Lake, Lake Louise, Banff Springs Hotel and other scenic areas around Banff townsite. Photographs were produced by Canadian Pacific for publication and advertising, and feature excursions led by the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies.

Notes: Some photographs not dated, but likely similar in age to other items dated 1940.

Subject Access: Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific; Advertising; Landscapes; Banff Springs Hotel; Hotel; Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Peyto Lake; Wolverine Plateau; Scarab Lake; Lake Louise; Banff National Park

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright restrictions apply

Language: English

Category: Sports, recreation and leisure; Commerce and industry; Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Giraffe

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Part Of: Kay Russell family fonds

Scope & Content: Photograph is of a giraffe [from Russell family vacation or hunting trip, date and location unknown].

Date Range: [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]

Reference Code: V63 / III / 1 (O.S.)

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Kay Russell family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M63 / V63

Sous-Fonds: V63

Accession Number: 7199

Reference Code: V63 / III / 1 (O.S.)

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w print ; 28 x 35.5 cm

Scope & Content: Photograph is of a giraffe [from Russell family vacation or hunting trip, date and location unknown].

Notes: Date range provided by Processing Archivist is estimate based on photograph's context and format.

Subject Access: Travel; Animals; Giraffe

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: N/A

Conservation: Item has been relocated from unprocessed to oversize storage and stored in appropriate file box.

Category: Family and personal life; Environment

Title Source: Title based on contents of item

Processing Status: Processed

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Morley Past

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album, comprising 108 photographs, 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to community life, schooling, business, and religion in and around Morely from the late 1800s to the early 1940s. File also contains three loose pages, possibly from the same album, wit…

Date Range: 1890-1942

Reference Code: V8 / 2014.8294

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Private record

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M8 / V8 / S8

Series: Accession number : 2014.8294

Sous-Fonds: V8

Accession Number: 2014.8294

Reference Code: V8 / 2014.8294

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print; Private record

Date Range: 1890-1942

Physical Description: 1 album (108 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller)

Scope & Content: File consists of one photograph album, comprising 108 photographs, 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to community life, schooling, business, and religion in and around Morely from the late 1800s to the early 1940s. File also contains three loose pages, possibly from the same album, with a total of nine full-colour photographs of structures around Morely taken ca. 1970s.

Subject Access: Animals; Architecture; Banff Indian Days; Buildings and facilities; Children; Churches; Communities; First Nations; Forestry; Fur trade; Horses; Hunting; Indigenous Peoples; Portrait; Religions; Stoney; Stoney Nakoda

Geographic Access: Morley; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: Sundance

Reproduction Restrictions: Sundance

Language: English

Conservation: Pages of photographs pertaining to sun dance not scanned.

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Indigenous artifacts and textiles display

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts display area with [Stoney Nakoda?] Indigenous artifacts and decorative textiles on two tables and hanging on two walls [n.d.], specific location unknown - possibly part of a museum, gift shop or a family home. Photograph is attached to dark grey/black matboard which is annotated …

Date Range: [1930-1940]

Reference Code: LUX / I / E6 / PA - 558

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / E : Collected material

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

Sub-Series: LUX / I / E6 : Photographs : Stoney

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / E6 / PA - 558

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [1930-1940]

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w print ; 22 x 16.5 cm on matboard 30 x 25 cm

Scope & Content: Photograph depicts display area with [Stoney Nakoda?] Indigenous artifacts and decorative textiles on two tables and hanging on two walls [n.d.], specific location unknown - possibly part of a museum, gift shop or a family home. Photograph is attached to dark grey/black matboard which is annotated on bottom in white pencil.

Notes: String for hanging photograph is attached to back of matboard with glue and thin paper; Date range is estimate by Processing Archivist based on content and format of photograph

Subject Access: Art; Cultural pluralism; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Pincher Creek

Language: English

Conservation: Item placed in mylar

Category: Arts; First nations

Title Source: Title based on contents of item

Content Details: Annotations on matboard: "Hammond Photo Pincher[?] Alta. [illegible]"

Processing Status: Processed

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Tobacco dance, 1944

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of one miniature photograph album [12.5 x 7.5 cm] made of black construction paper containing 4 b&w photograph prints pertaining to a Tobacco Dance event in Gleichen, Alberta in 1944. Photographs depict landscape views, teepees, and groups of unidentified Indigenous people [possibly …

Date Range: 1944

Reference Code: LUX / I / E6 / PD - 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / E : Collected material

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

Sub-Series: LUX / I / E6 : Photographs : Stoney

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / E6 / PD - 1

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: 1944

Physical Description: 1 album (4 photographs : b&w ; 8 x 5.5 cm)

Scope & Content: File consists of one miniature photograph album [12.5 x 7.5 cm] made of black construction paper containing 4 b&w photograph prints pertaining to a Tobacco Dance event in Gleichen, Alberta in 1944. Photographs depict landscape views, teepees, and groups of unidentified Indigenous people [possibly members of the nearby Siksika Nation]. The rest of the album is blank.

Material Details: Album bound with thin pink string

Subject Access: Cultural pluralism; Events; Dance; Environment; Community events; First Nations; Indigenous Peoples; Landscapes; Multiculturalism

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Gleichen

Language: N/A

Category: Cultural pluralism; Environment; First nations

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Lake Minnewanka panoramas

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 panoramic photographs depicting an unidentified man docking a boat on the shore of Lake Minnewanka.

Date Range: [ca.1920-1946]

Reference Code: LUX / I / D6c / PA - 88 to 90

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

3 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Professional and Personal

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

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D6 : Other activities and interests

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D6c / PA - 88 to 90

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca.1920-1946]

Physical Description: 3 photographs : b&w ; 29.5 x 8 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of 3 panoramic photographs depicting an unidentified man docking a boat on the shore of Lake Minnewanka.

Subject Access: Photography; Boats; Recreation; Leisure; Seascapes; Environment

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Lake Minnewanka

Language: N/A

Related Material: Corresponding negative photographs processed under reference codes LUX/I/D6c/PA-74 to 76

Category: Environment; Sports, recreation and leisure

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Natural views, Banff area

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 66 b&w photographs and 4 colour photographs pertaining to natural views in and around Banff. Includes views of the town of Banff from Sulphur Mountain; Banff Springs Hotel; Sinclair Canyon; Marble Canyon; Emerald Lake; Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mountain; Banff Buffalo Paddock; a pack…

Date Range: [ca.1900-1910]; 1902-1910; [1920-1940]; 1930; 1950; 1970

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PA - 35 to 104

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / III / D : Other material

Sous-Fonds: LUX / III : Luxton family sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / III / D / PA - 35 to 104

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [ca.1900-1910]; 1902-1910; [1920-1940]; 1930; 1950; 1970

Physical Description: 70 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 28 x 18 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 66 b&w photographs and 4 colour photographs pertaining to natural views in and around Banff. Includes views of the town of Banff from Sulphur Mountain; Banff Springs Hotel; Sinclair Canyon; Marble Canyon; Emerald Lake; Mount Rundle and Tunnel Mountain; Banff Buffalo Paddock; a pack trip; and related views.

Notes: Some items are annotated

Subject Access: Environment; Travel; Mountains; Landscapes; Animals; Buffalo; Moose; Elk; Animal Paddock; Horses; Pack trips

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; Banff National Park; Marble Canyon; Mount Rundle; Sulphur Mountain; Tunnel Mountain; British Columbia; Sinclair Canyon

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Conservation: Some items stored in mylar

Category: Environment; Exploration, discovery and travel

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Alberta historical photographs

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Album consists of 14 photographs and accompanying notes pertaining to various historical events in Alberta. Photographs in album pertain to the Ranchmen's Club in Calgary; an unidentified Stoney Nakoda chief receiving royalty payments for oil extraction in 1929; a group of police officers gathered …

Date Range: [1955-1960]

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 6

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / II / E : Travel and home records

Sous-Fonds: LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / II / E / PD - 6

GMD: Album; Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: [1955-1960]

Physical Description: 1 album (14 photographs : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm)

Scope & Content: Album consists of 14 photographs and accompanying notes pertaining to various historical events in Alberta. Photographs in album pertain to the Ranchmen's Club in Calgary; an unidentified Stoney Nakoda chief receiving royalty payments for oil extraction in 1929; a group of police officers gathered outside of a building [possibly the North-West Mounted Police Barracks in Canmore]; a cattle ranch, possibly located on a Blackfoot reserve; and other related subjects.

Notes: Photographs are copies of older images which were reproduced by Eleanor Luxton, ca.1955-1960. Dates and ownership details of original images is unknown.