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- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds 19
- Luxton family fonds 14
- James Irving McLeod fonds 6
- Kidney family fonds 5
- Mary (Molly) Wright Adams fonds 4
- Eliza Hunter fonds 3
- Archives General File Collection 2
- Postcard general file collection 2
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- Annie Staple fonds 1
- Bob Holscher collection 1
- Byron Harmon fonds 1
Bill Olson friends and family photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55643
- Part Of
- Olson family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.
- Date Range
- 1889-1967
- Reference Code
- V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Photograph
- Photograph print
37 images
- Part Of
- Olson family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M97 / V475
- Sous-Fonds
- V475
- Accession Number
- 670 ; 1107 ; 1021
- Reference Code
- V475 / PA121 - 01 to 19
- Date Range
- 1889-1967
- Physical Description
- 19 prints : b&w and col. ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to photographs of Bill Olson at work and with his family. Also includes family pictures of various generations of the Olson family, army portraits, coworkers, a Cave & Basin postcard, and an interior shot of the Dave White Shop.
- Notes
- Some of the people identified in the photos are Bill Kay, Jack Powell, Jack Doe, Fred Day, Charlie Fullhroch, Mac Lennat, Earl Squires, Bob Graham, Larry Foster, Willard Bell, Bush Ashley, Shorty Blasker, Casey Jones, Dan Zakaryk, Pete Finlay, Jon Douglas, Irene Straus, Marie Leong, and more.
- Name Access
- Olson, Bill
- Olson, Irene
- McTrowe, Florence
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Biographical
- Buffalo
- Cave and Basin
- Children
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Garden
- Home
- Leisure
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Personal and Family Life
- Personal and Professional Life
- Portrait
- War
- World War I
- WWI
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Canada
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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A bit of Emerald Lake, showing Emerald Peak
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16153
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Published Date
- ca. 1905
- Publisher
- Thompson's Studio
- Call Number
- V5/PG-56
1 image
- Place
- Vancouver, B.C.
- Publisher
- Thompson's Studio
- Published Date
- ca. 1905
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Abstract
- Features a couple on a canoe
- Notes
- Annotated
- colour
- Includes postage stamp
- Accession Number
- 14500
- Call Number
- V5/PG-56
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Blackfoot Indian Braves
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16287
- Responsibility
- A.Y. & Co.
- Place
- Printed in Germany
- Published Date
- ca. 1907
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Abstract
- Part of collection: "Original Cards of Largest Indian Gathering in the Northwest, August 30, 1907, Fort Macleod, Alberta"
- Notes
- b&w
- Accession Number
- 2863
- Call Number
- V187/PG-6
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Blood Squaws in War Dress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16282
- Responsibility
- A.Y. & Co.
- Place
- Printed in Germany
- Published Date
- ca. 1907
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Abstract
- Part of collection: "Original Cards of Largest Indian Gathering in the Northwest, August 30, 1907, Fort Marleod, Alberta"
- Notes
- b&w
- Accession Number
- 2863
- Call Number
- V187/PG-1
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Bob Holscher collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions485
- Part Of
- Bob Holscher collection
- Scope & Content
- Collection consists mainly of postcard views of Banff, Lake Louise and areas by various photographers, including Byron Harmon, J. Howard A. Chapman, S. J. Thompson and R. H. Trueman. Also, includes hand-coloured prints of Lake Louise, one by Alfred Blyth.
- Date Range
- [ca.1895-ca.1935]
- Reference Code
- V287
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- GMD
- Photograph
- Negative
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Part Of
- Bob Holscher collection
- Description Level
- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- V 287
- Sous-Fonds
- V 287
- Accession Number
- 3591, 6194
- Reference Code
- V287
- Date Range
- [ca.1895-ca.1935]
- Physical Description
- 30 photographs : prints, copy negatives
- History / Biographical
- Bob Holscher was a postcard collector at Banff, Alberta, Canada.
- Scope & Content
- Collection consists mainly of postcard views of Banff, Lake Louise and areas by various photographers, including Byron Harmon, J. Howard A. Chapman, S. J. Thompson and R. H. Trueman. Also, includes hand-coloured prints of Lake Louise, one by Alfred Blyth.
- Name Access
- Holscher, Bob (collector)
- Subject Access
- Arts
- Access Restrictions
- No restrictions on access
- Public domain (other restrictions may apply)
- Language
- Language is English
- Creator
- Holscher, Bob (collector)
- Category
- Arts
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Bow Falls, Banff. Canadian Pacific Railway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue17586
- Published Date
- ca. 1906
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Notes
- Annotated
- colour
- Includes postage stamp
- Accession Number
- 7864
- Call Number
- V151/PG-P75np-4
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Bow River from Banff Springs Hotel, Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16787
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Published Date
- 1908 - 1911
- Publisher
- The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
- Call Number
- V488/PG-4 oversized
1 image
- Place
- Montreal and Toronto Printed in Great Britain
- Publisher
- The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1908 - 1911
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Notes
- Annotated
- colour
- Accession Number
- 3458
- Call Number
- V488/PG-4 oversized
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Bow Valley, From Tunnel Mountain, Alberta
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue17133
- Responsibility
- Detroit Photographic Co.
- Published Date
- ca. 1902
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Notes
- colour
- Accession Number
- 17500
- Call Number
- V466/PG-P75np-13
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Bow-River Valley, Banff, Alba, Canada on line Can. Pac. Ry.
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue16540
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Published Date
- ca. 1909
- Publisher
- The Canadian View Card Co.
- Call Number
- V391/PG-61
1 image
- Variant Title
- On line Canadian Pacific Railway
- Place
- Toronto
- Publisher
- The Canadian View Card Co.
- Published Date
- ca. 1909
- Medium
- Library - Postcard
- Notes
- Annotated
- colour
- Includes postage stamp
- Accession Number
- 1430
- Call Number
- V391/PG-61
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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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