setName:"Wright family fonds" found 4 records - Research Collections

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of Andrew "Scotty" Wright papers and photographs, Mary Wright papers and photographs and some Wright family photographs. Textual records include Scotty Wright journals and notebooks, 1922-1942, correspondence, 1932-1937, and other papers, 1932-1967 re employment and personal matters;…

Date Range: [ca.1890]-1967

Reference Code: M84 / V711

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Private record

Part Of: Wright family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 84; V 711

Sous-Fonds: M 84; V 711

Accession Number: 592, 5697, 6614

Reference Code: M84 / V711

GMD: Photograph; Album; Negative; Photograph print; Transparency; Textual record; Diary; Private record

Date Range: [ca.1890]-1967

Physical Description: 10 cm of textual records. -- ca.165 photographs (ca.160 prints, 2 transparencies, 2 negatives). -- 4 photograph albums (ca.425 prints)

History / Biographical: Andrew "Scotty" Wright, 1887-1960, was a national park warden, carpenter, guide and rancher at Banff and Morley, Alberta, Canada. Wright came to the mountains in 1905 after homesteading and worked for Banff National Park as a warden in the Bankhead, Spray River and Ghost River districts. He was employed in various other jobs related to guiding, construction, equipment maintenance and repairs between Donald, British Columbia and Banff during the 1930s and 1940s, as a camp foreman for the United States Army near the Columbia Icefield, 1942. Andrew "Scotty" Wright and Lillian Hunter Wright, 1890-1936, had two children, Mary, 1914-1968, and William (Bill) "Scotty", 1929-2003. Mary Wright Burles was manager at various times of Skoki Lodge, the Lake Louise Inn, Sunshine Lodge and the Bar C Ranch near Morley where her father often lived his later years.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of Andrew "Scotty" Wright papers and photographs, Mary Wright papers and photographs and some Wright family photographs.; Textual records include Scotty Wright journals and notebooks, 1922-1942, correspondence, 1932-1937, and other papers, 1932-1967 re employment and personal matters; also miscellaneous personal papers of Mary Wright Burles, 1927-1967.; Photographs are mainly prints and albums pertaining to Andrew "Scotty" Wright and family, friends and associates, activities, hunting trips, mountain travels and skiing, ca.1890-1959. Includes two albums and some prints pertaining mainly to Mary Wright and her friends and activities at Banff and Skoki, ca.1925-1940, as well as photographs by Nick Morant and six panorama and large-format views by Charles D. Walcott.

Name Access: Burles, Mary Wright; Wright, Andrew (Scotty)

Subject Access: 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: basic description; microfilm copy of album/s

Creator: Wright, Andrew (Scotty)

Category: 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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Carl Rungius [painting in field]

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Part Of: Wright family fonds

Scope & Content: Image of a man identified as Carl Rungius painting the severed head of a mountain sheep held up by rope and tri-pod of logs.

Reference Code: v711 / 111 / na66 - 2296

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Negative, copy

1 image

Part Of: Wright family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V711

Reference Code: v711 / 111 / na66 - 2296

GMD: Photograph; Negative, copy

Physical Description: 1 photograph : negative : copy negative

Scope & Content: Image of a man identified as Carl Rungius painting the severed head of a mountain sheep held up by rope and tri-pod of logs.

Subject Access: Arts; Environment and Nature; Sports and Recreation

Geographic Access: Alberta; British Columbia

Title Source: copy negative envelope

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Jim Boyce, Carl Rungius and Mary (Wright) Burles

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Part Of: Wright family fonds

Scope & Content: Image of three people identified as (left to right): Jim Boyce, Carl Rungius and Mary (Wright) Burles standing in front of a tipi holding two severed heads of mountain sheep.

Date Range: ca. 1950

Reference Code: v711 / 113 / na66 - 2295

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Negative, copy

1 image

Part Of: Wright family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: V711

Reference Code: v711 / 113 / na66 - 2295

GMD: Photograph; Negative, copy

Date Range: ca. 1950

Physical Description: 1 photograph : negative : copy negative

Scope & Content: Image of three people identified as (left to right): Jim Boyce, Carl Rungius and Mary (Wright) Burles standing in front of a tipi holding two severed heads of mountain sheep.

Subject Access: Arts; Environment and Nature; Sports and Recreation; Women

Geographic Access: Alberta; British Columbia

Title Source: copy negative envelope

Images

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