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Ron Duke fonds

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government a…

Date Range: [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]

Reference Code: M175 / V180

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Postcard; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 175; V 180

Sous-Fonds: M 175; V 180

Accession Number: 168, 232, 1572, 1593, 1644, 1868, 2626, 3379, 5772

Reference Code: M175 / V180

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Postcard; Private record; Published record

Responsibility: Fonds includes primarily the private business records of Ron Duke, including the work of some predecessors. Images attributed to Bill Jamieson, working in the employ of George Noble, are V180 / II.A.i. through V180 / II.A.vi., and V180 / III.A.- 1 to 51.

Date Range: [ca.1900, ca.1930-ca.1975]

Physical Description: ca.40,000 photographs (ca.38,400 negatives, ca.800 prints, ca.800 transparencies). -- 1 photograph album. -- 3 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: Ronald Leslie Duke, 1912-1978, was a professional photographer at Banff, Alberta, Canada. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Duke was educated at Calgary, Banff and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. After wartime service with the National Film Board of Canada, Ron Duke returned to Banff, where he worked in the photography business for the next thirty years. Here he formed a link in a business lineage of photographers, including George Noble, and was for a time an employee of Noble's corporate successors. After 1958, Duke worked closely with the Banff School of Fine Arts, photographing productions and providing documentary services. After sustaining considerable damage in a fire which destroyed Banff's Mount Royal Hotel in 1967, Ron Duke's business resumed and, in partnership with George Baracos, continued until retirement in 1975.

Scope & Content: Fonds is a commercial negative collection from more than 4000 professional jobs. Includes family, personal and school portraits, weddings, conventions and passport photographs; Banff School of Fine Arts classes, activities, productions, business and convention programs; photographs of government and private construction, commercial and industrial projects, Banff National Park; Banff community life, including Banff Winter Carnival, sports and recreation, Banff High School, Banff activities, places and events; personal and occupational photographs arising from Duke's interest in aeronautics, work with the Canadian Army, World War II, and involvement in the oil industry, 1930s; scenic and landscape photographs. Most pertain to Banff National Park; also Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, United States; Turner Valley, Alberta and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.; Textual records include job registers, 2 v.; samples of works orders, price lists, letters, equipment lists, invoices, receipts and technical information, mainly pertaining to business, some personal items; brochures, publications and postcards containing credited or attributed Ron Duke photographs.

Name Access: Duke, Ron

Subject Access: Arts; Buildings and facilities; Community life; Commerce and industry; Education; Family and personal life

Access Restrictions: Some restriction/s on access; Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools: series and file description; electronic finding aid

Creator: Duke, Ron

Category: Arts; Commerce and industry; Education; Environment; Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Dave White family fonds

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Part Of: Dave White family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consist of three separate series: A. Correspondence and Printed Materials; B. Prints; C. Tintype. Fonds consists of photographs found in Annie White's trunk.

Date Range: 1889-1950

Reference Code: V681 / M556

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Tintype; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Dave White family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 556; V 681

Sous-Fonds: M556; V681

Accession Number: 7741

Reference Code: V681 / M556

GMD: Photograph; Negative; Photograph print; Tintype; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1889-1950

Physical Description: 1192 photographs: prints, negatives, tintype. -- 0.5cm of textual records.

History / Biographical: Dave White, 1864-1940, was born in New Brunswick and came to Banff, Alberta as a C.P.R. section foreman in 1886. In October 1894, Dave White quit the C.P.R. and built the Park Store. Between 1904 and 1907, Dave White ran a store at Bankhead with the help of partner D.C. Baynes. From 1908 to 1928 Sam Armstrong was Dave White's partner and the store was renamed Dave White and Co. After 1930, Dave's three sons, Peter, Clifford and Dave Jr. joined the partnership now called Dave White and Sons Ltd. In 1901, Dave married Annie Curren, whose father, John D. Curren, came from Glasgow, Scotland to investigate the coal mining at Anthracite. Dave and Annie had four children: Peter, 1905-1966; Clifford, 1902-1964; Dave Jr. (Jack), 1908-1961; and Lila, d.1961.; Dave White had three brothers: Daniel, who joined him in Banff, Angus and Peter as well as three sisters, Margaret, Lizzie and May.

Scope & Content: Fonds consist of three separate series: A. Correspondence and Printed Materials; B. Prints; C. Tintype. Fonds consists of photographs found in Annie White's trunk.

Name Access: White, Annie; White, Dave

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: Finding aids and reference tools.

Creator: White, Dave (Family)

Category: Family and personal life; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Bio file, Crag & Canyon,

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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[Aircraft prints]. -- [ca.1934]

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Made when Duke worked for Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington

Reference Code: V180 / I.A.

Description Level: 5 / File

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Series: I. Early material

Reference Code: V180 / I.A.

Scope & Content: Made when Duke worked for Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington

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Wartime work for the National Film Board of Canada

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 131 black & white negatives of various military training operations, mostly around Ottawa [?] taken by Ron Duke while working for the National Film Board during World War II. Includes landscapes, airplanes, truck convoys, military bases and camps, parades, and group shots in …

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / iii / NA - 01 to 19

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / iii / NA - 01 to 19

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Physical Description: 131 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 10 x 12.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 131 black & white negatives of various military training operations, mostly around Ottawa [?] taken by Ron Duke while working for the National Film Board during World War II. Includes landscapes, airplanes, truck convoys, military bases and camps, parades, and group shots in various settings - includes multiple negatives per envelope. [1] - [Group of people holding a “Welcome West” sign] [2] - [Military gun manufacture] [3] - [Military plane in flight] [4] - [Military trucks on road – one rolled over in ditch] [5] - [Truck convoy] [6] - [Forest training camp] [7] - [Military plane in flight – dropping bombs?] [8] - [Portraits of men in safety equipment] [9] - [Machinery] [10] - [Men at work in workshops] [11] - [Skiing?] [12] - [Aerial view of forest] [13] - [Deep snow on steps and car] [14] - [People looking out train windows at station] [15] - [Collection of buildings – military base?] [16] - [Group shots of people – mostly men in military uniforms] [17] - [People on military base] [18] - [Military parade] [19] - [Prairie landscape]

Subject Access: Airplanes; Automobiles; Buildings; Camps; Military; War; Winter; World War II; WWII

Geographic Access: Ontario; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Personal photographs - friends and family

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1944]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / i / NA - 01 to 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / i / NA - 01 to 12

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1944]

Physical Description: 43 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 11.3 x 8 cm or smaller

Subject Access: Activities; Children; Family and personal life; Photography; Portrait

Geographic Access: Ottawa; Ontario; Manitoba; Canada

Language: NA

Title Source: Title based on contents of sub-series

Processing Status: Processed

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Misc. negatives

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Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 9 black & white negatives of train tracks in mountains and posed plates with food in personal homes. [1] - [Mountain scenes with train tracks] [2] - [Plates of food in domestic settings]

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / ii / NA - 01 to 02

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Film; Negative

Part Of: Ron Duke fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M16 / V180

Series: I. Early material

Sous-Fonds: V1180

Accession Number: 5772

Reference Code: V180 / I / B / ii / NA - 01 to 02

GMD: Film; Negative

Date Range: [ca. 1940-1945]

Physical Description: 9 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives ; 11.3 x 8 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: Sub-series pertains to 9 black & white negatives of train tracks in mountains and posed plates with food in personal homes. [1] - [Mountain scenes with train tracks] [2] - [Plates of food in domestic settings]