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Byron Harmon fonds
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- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of the photographic records and sample materials of Byron Harmon Photos, the photographic business of Byron Harmon and his successors; as well as the personal photographs of Byron Harmon. I. Scenic / commercial, 1907-1975, ca.7600 items. Primary component of series is film and glass…
- Date Range
- [ca.1890-ca.1975]
- Reference Code
- V263
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Byron Harmon fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 263
- Sous-Fonds
- V 263
- Accession Number
- 235, 980, 1549, 1622, 2588, 2656, 2770, 2792, 2895, 3005, 3394, 3423, 3657, 3807, 3824, 3859, 3988, 4028, 4076, 5052, 5181, 5205, 5254, 5381, 6070, 6127, 6587, 6602
- Reference Code
- V263
- GMD
- Motion picture
- Film
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Published record
- Other Title Info
- Also known as the Byron Harmon Photos fonds.
- Date Range
- [ca.1890-ca.1975]
- Physical Description
- ca.10,500 photographs (and ca.35 cm) : prints, postcards, negatives, transparencies, motion pictures, sample products
- History / Biographical
- Byron Hill Harmon, 1876-1942, was a professional photographer and businessman at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He was born near Tacoma, Washington, USA and operated a portrait studio there for a time. In 1903, while travelling around the United States and Canada as an itinerant photographer, he decided to settle in Banff and by 1907 had produced enough mountain views to begin selling a line of postcards. Between 1906 and 1913, Harmon was official photographer for the Alpine Club of Canada and made trips in numerous mountain areas, such as the Bugaboos (1910) and Mount Robson (1911, 1913). Harmon personally financed trips into other areas, such as Tonquin Valley (1918) and Lake of the Hanging Glaciers (1920, 1922), producing both still photographs and motion pictures for commercial sale. After his last major expedition in 1924 across Saskatchewan Glacier, through to Maligne Lake and back to Banff by packtrain, Harmon devoted most of his time to photographing scenes along the railway, skiing in the Assiniboine and Skoki regions, and the annual rides and hikes of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies and the Sky Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies. At the same time he managed several businesses, including a drug store, fountain lunch, theatre and book store. In his later years, Harmon spent much time travelling and photographing in other parts of the world. The business, Byron Harmon Photos, was managed successively by his son, Don Harmon, then his grand-daughter, Carole Harmon.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of the photographic records and sample materials of Byron Harmon Photos, the photographic business of Byron Harmon and his successors; as well as the personal photographs of Byron Harmon.
- I. Scenic / commercial, 1907-1975, ca.7600 items. Primary component of series is film and glass negatives, 1907-1942, ca.6500 items. Also includes: postcard negatives and positives and production negatives to ca.1955; original prints; a wide range of sample products, such as postcards, enlargements and framing prints, calendars and viewbooks, mainly by Harmon business, some by other photographers; and lantern slides, ca.1913-192-, pertaining to Columbia Icefield Expedition, mountaineering, mountain landscapes, Indians, wildlife, Canadian Pacific Railway and Asian travel. Scenic / commercial series pertains to annual camps and expeditions of the Alpine Club of Canada in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks, 1907-1913; private movie-making expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks; mountain scenic views, primarily for postcard purposes; Banff events and development; skiing; birds and animals. Includes some material by Don Harmon and Lloyd Harmon, sons of Byron Harmon.
- II. Personal, 189- to 194-, ca.370 items. Includes: family photographs and views received from others; motion picture out-takes pertaining to world travels, 1930s; and 35 mm. transparencies, ca.1940, pertaining mainly to world travels, also mountain and prairie scenics.
- Notes
- For more information on the Byron Harmon photographs, see "Great Days in the Rockies: The Photographs of Byron Harmon, 1906-1934" (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978) or "Byron Harmon, Mountain Photographer" by Carole Harmon and Bart Robinson (Banff: Altitude Publishing, 1992)
- Name Access
- Harmon, Byron
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Access Restrictions
- Some restrictions on access to originals
- Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: series description
- selected modern reference prints
- digital images in Images database and in Alberta InSight database
- Related Material
- Byron Harmon postcards can also be found in the Postcard general file (V466)
- Creator
- Harmon, Byron
- Category
- Arts
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records and contents of fonds
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Byron Harmon photograph calendars
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- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 5 commercial miniature calendars with photographs [one printed directly onto calendar, 4 attached to backing]. Photographs on calendars are by Byron Harmon [one is not attributed, but likely by Harmon as well], and pertain to: an unnamed Indigenous couple [possibly Stoney Nakoda co…
- Date Range
- 1907
- 1912
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / F1 / 26
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Calendar
- Textual record
- Published record
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / II / F : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / II : Eleanor Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / II / F1 : Textual
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / II / F1 / 26
- Responsibility
- Photographs attributed to Byron Harmon
- Date Range
- 1907
- 1912
- Physical Description
- 5 calendars (17.8 x 36.5 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 5 commercial miniature calendars with photographs [one printed directly onto calendar, 4 attached to backing]. Photographs on calendars are by Byron Harmon [one is not attributed, but likely by Harmon as well], and pertain to: an unnamed Indigenous couple [possibly Stoney Nakoda community members], a view of Maligne Lake, an unidentified mountain, 4 ice climbers at the peak of Mt. Habel, and Stoney hunter and Trapper Silas Abraham. Calendar depicting Silas Abraham, 1907, includes printed advertisement for Norman Luxton's trading and taxidermy businesses in Banff and Exshaw.
- Name Access
- Harmon, Byron
- Luxton, Norman
- Subject Access
- Advertising
- Banff National Park
- Landscapes
- Mountain
- Hotel
- Indigenous Peoples
- Businesses
- Trapping
- Tourism
- Taxidermy
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Exshaw
- Jasper National Park
- Maligne Lake
- Mount Habel
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Items have been placed in mylar sheets
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four hand colored Vandyck photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8306
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Edition
- ed. deluxe
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpr Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Edition
- ed. deluxe
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l. : all ill
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Accession Number
- 130
- 5834
- 14500
- 7504
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpr Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four hand colored Vandyck photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- printed in England
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprh Pam c.1
- 02.6 H22cprh Pam c.2
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- printed in England
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l. : all ill
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Accession Number
- 2864
- 7717
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprh Pam c.1
- 02.6 H22cprh Pam c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14754
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprp Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l; all ill
- Subjects
- Cascade Mountain
- Castle Mountain
- Rundle, Mount
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Contains updated photo of the Banff Springs Hotel
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprp Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four Vandyck photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8307
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpv Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l; all ill
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Accession Number
- 2127
- 6299
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpv Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four Vandyck photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12248
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpvr Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l; all ill
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Accession Number
- 14500
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cpvr Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Pacific Rockies : a series of twenty-four Vandyck photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14753
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprv Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Published Date
- [192-?]
- Physical Description
- 24l; all ill
- Subjects
- Cascade Mountain
- Castle Mountain
- Rundle, Mount
- Notes
- Cover title: Rocky Mountains of Canada
- Accession Number
- 7900
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22cprv Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Canadian Rockies : a series of eighteen hand colored Vandyck photogravures
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1244
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1937?
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Call Number
- F1090 C3 H3
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Publisher
- Banff : Byron Harmon
- Published Date
- 1937?
- Call Number
- F1090 C3 H3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The Canadian Rockies : a series of eighteen hand colored Vandyke photogravures [viewbook]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8314
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22vea Pam
- Author
- Harmon, Byron
- Published Date
- [193-?]
- Physical Description
- 18l. : all ill
- Notes
- Photos different from 02.6/H22ve/Pam
- Accession Number
- 17500
- Call Number
- 02.6 H22vea Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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