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Murray family fonds

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Part Of: Murray family fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The artic…

Date Range: 1887-1960

Reference Code: M142 / V453

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Part Of: Murray family fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: M 142; V 453

Sous-Fonds: M 142; V 453

Accession Number: 450, 941

Reference Code: M142 / V453

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Textual record; Private record; Published record

Date Range: 1887-1960

Physical Description: 33 photographs : prints. -- .5 cm of textual records

History / Biographical: George Murray, 1904-1968, and Gertrude Murray, 1891-1979, were residents of Banff, Alberta, Canada. George Murray was an employee of Rocky Mountain Tours and Transport Company from 1941 until 1957 and was later employed by Brewster Transport Company. The Murrays were friends of Major F. V. (Frederick Victor) Longstaff, 1879-1961, a mountaineer, architect and historian from Victoria, B.C.

Scope & Content: Fonds includes photographs of Rocky Mountain Tours buses at various locations; photographs by F. V. Longstaff, several of which are inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. George Murray; Longstaff Christmas cards, n.d., 1944-1960; and an article by Longstaff titled "Historical Notes on Glacier House." The article includes photographic illustrations of the Lake O'Hara region and the interior of Abbot Pass Hut.

Name Access: Murray, George; Murray, Gertrude

Subject Access: Family and personal life; Glacier House

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: basic description for photographs.

Creator: Murray, George; Murray, Gertrude

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title based on accession records and contents of fonds

Processing Status: Processed

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Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds

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Part Of: Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of 167 transparencies pertaining to camps, pack train, bears, sheep, moose, hunting, flowers, landscapes (Glacier Park, Mt. Mckinley Park), 1959-1963.

Date Range: 1959-1963

Reference Code: V110

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Part Of: Richard (Dick) H. Russell fonds

Description Level: 1 / Fonds

Fonds Number: V 110

Sous-Fonds: V 110

Accession Number: 7772 (unproc)

Reference Code: V110

GMD: Photograph; Transparency

Date Range: 1959-1963

Physical Description: 167 photographs: transparencies

History / Biographical: Richard "Dick" H. Russell b.1938, is one of the son's of Andy Russell and Kay Russell and grandson of Bert Riggall. Dick grew up at the Hawk's Nest ranch on the N.E. boundary of Waterton Lake National Park with his sister, Anne and three brothers, Charlie, Gordon, and John. Dick and his brother Charlie worked with Andy Russell on his documentary film "Grizzly Country," ca.1969.

Scope & Content: Fonds consists of 167 transparencies pertaining to camps, pack train, bears, sheep, moose, hunting, flowers, landscapes (Glacier Park, Mt. Mckinley Park), 1959-1963.

Name Access: Russell, Richard H. (Dick)

Subject Access: Arts; Environment; Glacier National Park; McKinley, Mount; Pack trips

Language: Language is English

Finding Aid: No finding aid

Creator: Russell, Dick

Category: Arts; Environment; Sports, recreation and leisure

Biographical Source Notes: Bio file, Russell fonds

Title Source: Title based on contents of fonds

Processing Status: Unprocessed

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Glacial studies in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks (Smithsonian expedition, season of 1904.) preliminary report

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1905

Author: Sherzer, William Hittell

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution

Call Number: 03.4 Sh5g Pam

Author: Sherzer, William Hittell

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution

Published Date: 1905

Physical Description: 44 pages, illustrations

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Deville Glacier; Illecillewaet Glacier; Lefroy Glacier; Mitre Glacier; Selkirk Mountains; Victoria Glacier; Wapta Glacier; Wenkchemna Glacier; Yoho Glacier

Accession Number: 7913

Call Number: 03.4 Sh5g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Additional observations on glaciers in British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Vaux, George

Call Number: 03.4 V46ad Pam

Author: Vaux, George

Responsibility: by George and William S. Vaux, Jr

Physical Description: p.501-511

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Asulkan Glacier; Illecillewaet Glacier; Victoria Glacier

Notes: From Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, December 1899

Accession Number: 1118

Call Number: 03.4 V46ad Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Observations made in 1900 on glaciers in British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Vaux, George, Jr

Call Number: 03.4 V46obse Pam

Author: Vaux, George, Jr

Responsibility: by George and William S. Vaux

Physical Description: p.213-215

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Asulkan Glacier; Illecillewaet Glacier; Victoria Glacier

Notes: From Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, March, 1901

Accession Number: 1118

Call Number: 03.4 V46obse Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Glaciers in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1907

Author: Sherzer, William Hittell

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution

Call Number: 03.4 Sh3g Pam

Author: Sherzer, William Hittell

Responsibility: William Hittell Sherzer, PH.D.

Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution

Published Date: 1907

Physical Description: 496 pp. ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Victoria Glacier; Wapta Icefield; Illecillewaet Glacier; Asulkan Glacier

Notes: Smithsonian Expedition of 1904 preliminary report

Accession Number: 7830

Call Number: 03.4 Sh3g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Some tramps across the glaciers and snowfields of British Columbia

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 1910

Author: Palmer, Howard

Publisher: In National Geographic Vol. 21, No.6, June 1910

Call Number: P

Author: Palmer, Howard

Publisher: In National Geographic Vol. 21, No.6, June 1910

Published Date: 1910

Physical Description: p.457-486, illustrations

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Battle Glacier; Geikie Glacier; Illecillewaet Glacier; Kilpatrick, Mount

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Personal Photographs

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Part Of: O. Kathleen Wilson fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.

Date Range: [ca.1916-1935]

Reference Code: V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

221 images

Part Of: O. Kathleen Wilson fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: V699

Sous-Fonds: V699

Accession Number: 3012, 3255, 3815, 3856, 3938, 3976, 4040, 5178

Reference Code: V699 / PA - 01 to PA - 116

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: [ca.1916-1935]

Physical Description: 11 photographs : prints

History / Biographical: O. Kathleen Wilson was employed at the Chateau Lake Louise at Lake Louise, Alberta in the 1920s.

Scope & Content: File pertains to 116 b&w photographs of O. Kathleen Wilson, her friends and coworkers at the Chateau Lake Louise, celebrities and royalty, hiking, climbing, prisoners of war, and scenery around the Lake Louise and Glacier B.C. areas, including tea houses, hotels, trains, and alpine huts.