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Among the sources of the Saskatchewan and Athabasca Rivers
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T. S. (Mary Townsend Sharples)
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1s
- Physical Description
- p.48-62 : ill
- Subjects
- Columbia Icefield
- Pack trips
- Simpson, Jimmy
- Notes
- From the Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, vol.VI, no.2, April 1908
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Breaking the way
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1904
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary M
- Publisher
- Beaconsfield, Que. : Rod & Gun Ltd
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sch1b Pam
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary M
- Responsibility
- by Mary M. Schaffer
- Publisher
- Beaconsfield, Que. : Rod & Gun Ltd
- Published Date
- 1904
- Physical Description
- 3 pages
- Notes
- Photocopy of article from Rod and Gun in Canada (Aug 1904 v.6 no.3)
- Information about the climber Gertrude Benham
- Has bibliographic information about the serial
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sch1b Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Film negatives
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- Part Of
- Mary Schaffer fonds
- Scope & Content
- Negatives pertain mainly to explorations, including landscapes, participants, camps and activities; also fauna, flora and Japan. Areas include Fortress Lake, Maligne Valley and Lake, Kootenay Plains, Mount Columbia and Athabasca River
- Date Range
- [1907-1911]
- Reference Code
- V527 / NA - 1 to 136
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Negative
- Part Of
- Mary Schaffer fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M79 / V527
- Series
- II.C. Photographs: negatives
- Sous-Fonds
- V527
- Accession Number
- 2764, 5248
- Reference Code
- V527 / NA - 1 to 136
- GMD
- Negative
- Date Range
- [1907-1911]
- Physical Description
- 136 photographs : negatives; film
- Scope & Content
- Negatives pertain mainly to explorations, including landscapes, participants, camps and activities; also fauna, flora and Japan. Areas include Fortress Lake, Maligne Valley and Lake, Kootenay Plains, Mount Columbia and Athabasca River
- Notes
- NA-101: Sky is masked out by a combination of fabric and paintlike substance.
- Name Access
- Schaffer, Mary
- Warren, Billy
- Lewis, John Swift
- Sharples, Paul
- Sharples, Carrie
- Moberly, John
- Subject Access
- Animals
- Big Horn Sheep
- Bighorn Sheep
- Bison
- Environment and Nature
- Horses
- Indigenous Peoples
- Japanese
- Landscapes
- Tourism
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Yoho National Park
- British Columbia
- Banff
- Jasper
- Maligne Lake
- Mount Robson
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
- Language
- English
- Finding Aid
- Item list available. Some reference prints are available.
- Creator
- Mary Schaffer
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- LIST OF NEGATIVES (V527/NA) :
- 1 [Mary Schaffer and others on mountain side]. -- 1906
- 2,3 [Unidentified mountains and lake]. -- 1906
- 4 [Laughing Falls]. -- 1906
- 5 [Unidentified mountains and lake]. -- 1906
- 6 Valley of the Lakes. -- 1906
- 7 Mr. Muggins : [dog]. -- 1906
- 8 [Flowers]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 9 [Mt. Saskatchewan from Castleguard?]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 10 Pinto Lake. -- [1907 or 08]
- 11 Wildflowers : [Bow Park]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 12 Sun Wapta Canyon. -- [1907 or 08]
- 13 Sun Wapta Canyon. -- August 13, [1907 or 08]
- 14, 15 Vaux Canyon : [Sunwapta Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 16 Sunwapta Canyon. -- August 13, [1907 or 08]
- 17 Tete Jaune Cache
- 18 [Hoodoos and Cascade River at Anthracite]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 19 [Bird]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 20 [Packtrain near mountain]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 21 Moberly : [John Moberly?] . -- 1908
- 22 Lewis John Swift. -- 1908
- 23 [Mrs. Swift? and child]. -- 1908
- 24 Moberly : [John Moberly?]. -- 1908
- 25 [Man on horse on mountain pass]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 26 [Billy Warren launching raft on Maligne Lake]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 27 Head of Maligne Lake [and view of Mount Mary Vaux]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 28 Mount Robson. -- 1908
- 29 [Girl with dog at Lake Louise]
- 30,31 Athabasca River Valley panorama from the Bump : [Mt. Kitchener]. -- 1908
- 32,33 [Panorama from Wilcox Pass?: Mt. Kitchener to Mt. Stutfield, Song Sangen Creek and Snow Dome]. -- 1907?
- 34 [View from the Bump - Wilcox Pass and Snow Dome?]. -- 1908
- 35-37 Athabasca River Valley panorama. -- 1908
- 38-39 Athabasca River Valley panorama. -- 1908
- 40-41 [Unidentified mountains]. -- [1907 or 08]. -- #41 is reverse neg of #40
- 42 [Fortress Lake]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 43 [Unidentified mountain and lake]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 44 [Horses by fire]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 45 [Horse and rider by Ptarmigan Lake?]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 46 [Horse with saddle]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 47 [Laughing Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 48 [Unidentified mountain scene]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 49 [Takakkaw Falls]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 50 [Unidentified mountain scene]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 51 Castle Mountain. -- [1907 or 08]
- 52 Elk. -- [1907 or 08]
- 53 Elk. -- 1906
- 54-57 Buffalo in animal paddock. -- [1907 or 08]]
- 58 [Unidentified cabins at animal paddock, Banff?]. -- [[1907 or 08]]
- 59 Wild flowers. -- [1907 or 08]
- 60 [Unidentified rock tower]. -- [1907 or 08]
- 61 [Japanese lady at table]
- 62 [Japanese woman in doorway]
- 63 [Japanese woman in garden]
- 64 [Japan scene]
- 65 Maligne Lake : [camp]
- 66 [Schaffer party on raft, Maligne Lake]
- 67 Head of Maligne [Lake]
- 68 Morning mists on Maligne : [Maligne Lake]
- 69 Maligne Valley : [teepee poles]
- 70 [People in boat on Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]
- 71 Mount Unwin : [Paul Sharples and Carrie Sharples? in boat on Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]
- 72 Maligne Lake near Sampson's Narrows
- 73 Head of Maligne : [Maligne Lake]
- 74,75 [Maligne Lake?]
- 76 Sampson Peak : [Sampson Peakand Maligne Lake]. -- [1911]
- 77 Sampson at dawn
- 78 [Mary Schaffer, Paul Sharples, Carrie Sharples with teepee]. -- [1911]
- 79 Shoulder of Charlton : [Paul Sharples in boat]. -- [1911]
- 80 The Ramparts
- 81 Henry House : [site of Henry House]
- 82 [Horses on unidentified pass]
- 83 Columbia : [packtrain near Mount Columbia]
- 84 Bow Summit
- 85 Pyramid Mountain
- 86 Wilcox Summit
- 87 [Trout hanging from tree]
- 88 Mt. Columbia
- 89 [Unidentified Indigneous woman and child with teepee]
- 90 [Indigenous person with teepee on Kootenay Plains]
- 91 [Unidentified mountain - winter scene]
- 92 [Forest fire along the Athabasca River]
- 93 Moberly's : [packtrain fording Athabasca River]
- 94 Moberly's : [three people crossing Athabasca River in dugout canoe]
- 95 [Wrecked raft? along river]
- 96 Robson; horses grazing : [Mount Robson]
- 97 Nashan : [Nashan Peak and Watchtower lake]
- 98 [Indigenous people and horses on Kootenay Plains]
- 99 [Chaba River?]
- 100 [Unidentified mountains]
- 101 [Horses on trail beside unidentified river]
- 102 [Man and woman blowing up air mattresses]
- 103 [Unidentified mountain]
- 104 [Mary Schaffer and horses]
- 105 Fortress : [Fortress Lake]
- 106-109 [Fortress Lake]
- 110 [Mount Quincy?]
- 111 [Unidentified mountain and lake]
- 112 [Unidentified mountain]
- 113 [Camp scene]
- 114 [Unidentified river]
- 115, 116 [Unidentified lake and mountains]
- 117 Athabasca : [Mount Athabasca]
- 118 [Mount Columbia]
- 119 [Unidentified mountains]
- 120 [Mount Charlton and Pixie Valley]
- 121 [Packhorses on steep trail]
- 122 [Unidentified mountains]
- 123 [Unidentified lake and mountains]
- 124 [Person with horse on edge of gorge]
- 125 [Vermilion Lakes]
- 126 [Mount Rundle from Vermilion Lakes]
- 127 [Moose calves at animal paddock]
- 128 [Sheep in slough]
- 129 [Woman feeding antelope at animal paddock]
- 130 [Woman with moose calves at animal paddock]
- 131 [Sheep]
- 132 [Mountain sheep]
- 133 [Antelope and buffalo at animal paddock]
- 134 [Sheep]
- 135, 136 [Flowers]
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A hunter of peace : Mary Schaffer's Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T. S. (Mary Townsend Sharples).
- Publisher
- Banff : The Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- F1060.9 S3 H8
- Responsibility
- edited by E. J. Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : The Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 151p. : ill
- Notes
- Including The 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake, and Yahe-Weha - mountain woman
- ISBN
- 092060806X
- Accession Number
- AC596
- Call Number
- F1060.9 S3 H8
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A hunter of peace : Mary T. S. Schaffer's Old Indian trails of the Canadian Rockies...
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T. S. (Mary Townsend Sharples)
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1h c.1
- 02.6 Sch1h c.2
- Responsibility
- with photographs by the author and by Mary W. Adams and others
- text edited and annotated by E. J. Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 153p. : ill., maps, ports
- Subjects
- Pack trips
- Notes
- Copy 2 is from the 7th printing in 1997
- ISBN
- 0-920608-06-X
- Accession Number
- 30500
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1h c.1
- 02.6 Sch1h c.2
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- Archives Library
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A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schaffer's Old Indian trails of the Canadian Rockies
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Call Number
- TR140 S33 H37
- Responsibility
- introduced and edited by E.J. Hart
- Publisher
- Banff : Whyte Foundation
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 151p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.)
- Subjects
- Women photographers - Canada - Biography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada - Description and travel - 1900-1950
- Maligne Lake
- Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples, 1861-1939
- Notes
- Contents : Yahe-Weha-Mountain Woman : the life and travels of Mary Schaffer Warren, 1861-1939 / E.J. Hart -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1907 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- Old Indian trails expedition of 1908 / Mary T.S. Schaffer -- The 1911 expedition to Maligne Lake / Mary T.S. Schaffer
- Call Number
- TR140 S33 H37
- Location
- Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
- Collection
- Art Library
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A hunter of peace : Mary T.S. Schäffer's Old Indian trails of the Canadian Rockies : incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years' exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada and her original manuscript1911 Expedition to Maligne Lake
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T. S. (Mary Townsend Sharples)
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1h 2014
- Responsibility
- with photographs by the author and by Mary W. Adams and others ; edited with introduction, Yahe-Weha--Mountain Woman : a portrait of Mary Schäffer Warren by E.J. Hart, 1980 and a new foreword by Jennifer Rutkair, 2013
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 192 pages : photographs ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Camps
- Maligne Lake
- Pack trips
- Schaffer, Mary
- ISBN
- 9780920608586
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sch1h 2014
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- Archives Library
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Mary Schaffer fonds
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- Part Of
- Mary Schaffer fonds
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of three series: I. Personal, literary and research papers, 1907-ca.1935; II. Mary Schaffer photographs, 1893-ca.1920; II. Other, 1895-1928. I. Papers series consists of four sub-series: A. Correspondence, 1908-1922; B. Literary manuscripts (original and published), 1907-ca.1925; …
- Date Range
- 1893-[ca.1935]
- Reference Code
- M79 / V527
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Diary
- Map
- Private record
- Published record
- Part Of
- Mary Schaffer fonds
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M79 / V527
- Series
- V527
- Sous-Fonds
- V527
- Accession Number
- 275, 439, 573, 2685, 2764, 2933, 2996, 3284, 3302, 5248, 7202, 7731, 7737
- Reference Code
- M79 / V527
- GMD
- Photograph
- Album
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Transparency
- Textual record
- Diary
- Map
- Private record
- Published record
- Other Title Info
- Also known as Mary Schaffer Warren fonds
- Date Range
- 1893-[ca.1935]
- Physical Description
- 35 cm of textual records. -- ca.2025 photographs (ca.1550 transparencies, ca.400 negatives, 75 prints). -- 7 photograph albums (ca.1760 prints)
- History / Biographical
- Mary Schaffer, 1861-1939, also known as Mary Schaffer Warren, was an American explorer, photographer and artist who visited the Canadian Rockies and Selkirk Mountains frequently beginning in 1888, finally settling in Banff, Alberta in 1912. Born Mary Townsend Sharples to moderately wealthy Quaker parents at West Chester, Pennsylvania, she first visited the Canadian Rockies and Selkirk Mountains in 1888 with her friend Mary Vaux. She returned the following year with her husband, Dr. Charles Schaffer, and until Charles died in 1903, the Schaffers travelled annually to the mountains to study botany. Using Dr. Schaffer's data and her drawings and photographs, Mary Schaffer and Stewardson Brown completed "Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains" in 1907.
- Schaffer continued to travel in the Canadian mountains, often through remote regions. In 1908, she reached Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, and returned in 1911 to survey the region. "Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies," 1911, recounts her adventures of 1907 and 1908. Schaffer settled in Banff in 1912 and married her guide, Billy Warren, in 1915.
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists of three series: I. Personal, literary and research papers, 1907-ca.1935; II. Mary Schaffer photographs, 1893-ca.1920; II. Other, 1895-1928.
- I. Papers series consists of four sub-series: A. Correspondence, 1908-1922; B. Literary manuscripts (original and published), 1907-ca.1925; C. Maps of Maligne Lake; D. Other, 1905-ca.1935. Literary manuscripts pertain to the Athabasca River, Maligne Lake, Howse, Yellowhead and Athabasca passes; hunting; Dr. Gilbert Atkin and Nurse Fulcher's medical mission to Ya Ha Tinda Ranch; Banff, Revelstoke BC, Saskatchewan River; Stoney Nakoda; Palliser Expedition; and Mary Schaffer life and activities.
- II. Photographs series consists of four sub-series: A. Lantern slides; B. Photograph albums; C. Negatives; D. Prints. Lantern slides pertain to Mary Schaffer's trips to Maligne Lake and Yellowhead Pass, mountain scenics, nature subjects (animals, birds, flowers); and includes Mary Schaffer's lantern slide presentations "In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies", accompanied by scripts; Philip Moore's Indigenous lecture series, mainly copies from books and other graphic sources; and Mary Schaffer's slides of China and Japan. Photograph albums, 1908-ca.1921, pertain mainly to trips in the Canadian Rocky and Selkirk Mountains, especially expeditions to the Yoho and Ptarmigan Valleys, Nakimu Caves, North Saskatchewan River, Wilcox Pass and Maligne Lake. Two albums pertain to travels in Mexico and Asia. Negatives pertain mainly to Schaffer's trips and explorations, Glacier House and environs, alpine flora and fauna, mountain views, portraits, Sampson Beaver family, 1902-1911.
- III. Other material series consists of diaries of Molly Adams, 1908, and Mrs. H. H. Sharples, 1911, and original manuscripts and published reports by other writers, 1895-1928.
- Name Access
- Adams, Molly
- Schaffer, Mary
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Environment
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- 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: arrangement outline
- series and file description for processed material
- electronic finding aid
- item list for lantern slides
- copies of literary manuscripts
- modern reference prints for lantern slides
- Related Material
- Accompanied by books, artifacts and art works
- Creator
- Schaffer, Mary
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
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Mary Schaffer negatives
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- Part Of
- Vaux family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consits of 80 6.5 x 8.5 inch negatives; images are of botanical specimens, plants, landscapes and portraits of people.
- Date Range
- 1902 - 1903
- Reference Code
- V653 / I / Z /
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Negative
- Photograph
123 images
- Part Of
- Vaux family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M107/V653
- Series
- I. Photography
- Sous-Fonds
- V653
- Sub-Series
- Z. Mary Schaffer Negatives
- Accession Number
- 7202
- Reference Code
- V653 / I / Z /
- GMD
- Negative
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1902 - 1903
- Physical Description
- 81 photographs : negatives; film, 6.5x8.5"
- Scope & Content
- File consits of 80 6.5 x 8.5 inch negatives; images are of botanical specimens, plants, landscapes and portraits of people.
- Notes
- Images are captioned by accompanying envelopes.
- NA-57 to NA-61 are potentially copies of Vaux negatives (indicated on accompanying envelope).
- Many negatives have been hand retouched.
- Name Access
- Schaffer, Mary
- Subject Access
- Bears
- Dogs
- Flowers
- Glaciers
- Grizzly Bears
- Geographic Access
- Glacier National Park
- Selkirks
- Access Restrictions
- Access by appointment only
- Language
- English
- Finding Aid
- In case file
- Creator
- Mary Schaffer
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Old Indian trails : incidents of camp and trail life, covering two years' exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19850
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1911
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T.S.
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sh1o
- Author
- Schaffer, Mary T.S.
- Responsibility
- Mary T.S. Schaffer
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912
- Published Date
- 1911
- Physical Description
- xiv, 364 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, folded map ; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Travel
- Rocky Mountains
- Alberta
- Schaffer Mary
- Abstract
- Pertains to the stories of Mary T.S. Schaffer, an American-Canadian naturalist and adventurer, during her time in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Written similar to the format of a diary entry, Schaffer’s book invites the reader to experience the Canadian Rockies from her perspective. She tells of her adventurers, struggles and discoveries during her two year exploration in the Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Expedition of 1907 I.An Explanation II.Trouble at the Start – Bow Valley III.Trailing the North Fork IV.Through unmapped country V.On the search of fortress lake VI.To the base of mount Columbia VII.Back on the old familiar trail VIII.Nashan Valley, Thompson Pass, the Ice-Fields of Mount Columbia IX.Off to the Brazeau Country X.Jonas Pass and a pair of snow-blind eyes XI.On the golden plains of the Saskatchewan XII.The valley of the lakes, then back to cizilisation Expedition of 1908 I.The start II.Back on our old playground – the north fork III.The search for the unmapped lake IV.A maiden voyage on the “new” lake V.The tribulations of the investigator VI.The joys of Pobokton Valley and the Sun Wapta VII.Rock-bluffs, Georges, and residents of the Athabasca VIII.Bound for Mount Robson IX.The Tete jaune Cache X.Going home Index
- Accession Number
- 2019.51
- Call Number
- 02.6 Sh1o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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