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Earle Birney fonds

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Part Of
Earle Birney fonds
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of Earle Birney textual records, 1896-1971, n.d.; recordings of Birney reading his works, 1967, 1982; and portraits of Birney, ca.1967. Textual records are excerpts from the Earle Birney papers pertaining to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; including correspondence, 1918-1924, biogra…
Date Range
1896-1982
Reference Code
M201 / S31 / V67
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Sound recording
Recording disc
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Part Of
Earle Birney fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
M 201
S 31
V 67
Sous-Fonds
M 201
S 31
V 67
Accession Number
167, 552, 1226, 3603
Reference Code
M201 / S31 / V67
GMD
Photograph
Photograph print
Sound recording
Recording disc
Textual record
Private record
Published record
Date Range
1896-1982
Physical Description
2 cm of textual records. -- 2 sound recordings : audio discs. -- 4 photographs : prints
History / Biographical
Earle Birney, 1904-1995, was a writer, poet and educator at Toronto, Ontario. Birney lived in Banff from 1911 until 1917.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of Earle Birney textual records, 1896-1971, n.d.; recordings of Birney reading his works, 1967, 1982; and portraits of Birney, ca.1967. Textual records are excerpts from the Earle Birney papers pertaining to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; including correspondence, 1918-1924, biographical material, 1971, drafts of poems, 1941-1952, printed material, 1948-1970, and Birney family correspondence, 1896-1917.
Poems include: "Ballad of Kootenay Brown", "Biography", "Bushed", "Conrad Kain", "Holiday in the Foothills", "Leaving Yellowstone", "Oldster". Correspondence is mainly from Charles Brown to Birney. Printed material includes short story: "Mickey was a Swell Guy," set in Banff during the First World War. Recordings are "David" [1967] and "Nexus and Earle Birney", 1982
Name Access
Birney, Earle
Subject Access
Arts
Family and personal life
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access
Copyright, privacy, commercial use and other restrictions may apply
Language
Language is English
Finding Aid
Finding aids and reference tools: reference copy recordings
Creator
Birney, Earle
Category
Arts
Family and personal life
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Processing Status
Processed
Less detail
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