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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20137
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
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Author
Clark, Geoffrey E.
Responsibility
Geoffrey E. Clark
Publisher
Portsmouth Athenaeum
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
81 pages : illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Arctic
Arctic Regions
Research
Survival
Film making
Films
American
Abstract
In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)
Contents
Introduction
Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition
The Beginning
Research and Exploration
The Retreat
The Rescue
Greely's Later Years
The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
DVD of associated film included with publication
Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio
ISBN
0974089524
Accession Number
AC637
Call Number
G670 C53 A23
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Link to publication on Abe Books
Websites
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The adventures of an illustrator, mostly in following his authors in America & Europe

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20902
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1925
Author
Fennell, Joseph
Publisher
Boston : Little, Brown
Call Number
NE112 P5
Author
Fennell, Joseph
Responsibility
by Jospeh Pennell
Publisher
Boston : Little, Brown
Published Date
1925
Physical Description
xxii, 372p. : ill. ports. facsim
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Illustrators, American
Accession Number
3069
Call Number
NE112 P5
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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The American Western in Canadian literature

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Author
Deshaye, Joel
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Nationalism
Literature
Canada
Canada - Western Region
History
American
Abstract
The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.
ISBN
9781773852676
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
08.1 D45t
Collection
Archives Library
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Americans climb K2

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3054
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
DS485 K2 A5 Pam
Physical Description
p.623-650 : ill., ports, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American K2 Expedition (1978)
Notes
From National Geographic, May 1979
Contents : The ultimate challenge / James W. Whitaker ; On to the summit / James Wickwire
Call Number
DS485 K2 A5 Pam
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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An artist's horizons

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20885
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1973
Author
Shepler, Dwight
Publisher
Weston (Mass.) : Fairfield House ; Barre (Mass.)
Call Number
ND1839 S5
Author
Shepler, Dwight
Responsibility
Dwight Shepler
Publisher
Weston (Mass.) : Fairfield House ; Barre (Mass.)
Published Date
1973
Physical Description
148p. : ill. port.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Feuz, Edward
Bow Glacier
Mountains in art
Sea in art
War in art
Bow Peak
Albion Ridge
Watercolors, American
Accession Number
3069
Call Number
ND1839 S5
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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Astroêtres a Quebec

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20729
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1966
Author
Forner, Raquel
Publisher
Ottawa : M.O.M. Printing
Call Number
ND339 F6
Author
Forner, Raquel
Responsibility
Dessins de Raquel Forner. Texte par Eduardo Jantus
Publisher
Ottawa : M.O.M. Printing
Published Date
1966
Physical Description
plates in folder
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Artists, South American
Fantasy in art
Notes
Includes bibliography
Text in English and French
Accession Number
2763
Call Number
ND339 F6
Location
Art Library is located in Curatorial Department - Please contact Curatorial Department for access
Collection
Art Library
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At the top, and out of oxygen

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3071
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Ullman, James Ramsey
Call Number
DS486 E8 U4 Pam Oversize C
Author
Ullman, James Ramsey
Physical Description
p.75-89 : ill., ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
American Mount Everest Expedition (1963)
Notes
From Life magazine, 1963
Cover title: Mass conquest of mighty Everest
Call Number
DS486 E8 U4 Pam Oversize C
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Date
1890 – 1900
Material
skin; metal; glass
Catalogue Number
103.07.0003
Description
A woman's beaded harness belt with a leather strap and buckle at opposite ends. The belt has a white border and three white squares with crosses of coloured beads separating patterned sections of blue, mustard, red and green beads.
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Title
Beaded Belt
Date
1890 – 1900
Material
skin; metal; glass
Dimensions
5.5 x 89.0 cm
Description
A woman's beaded harness belt with a leather strap and buckle at opposite ends. The belt has a white border and three white squares with crosses of coloured beads separating patterned sections of blue, mustard, red and green beads.
Subject
Indigenous
American Peigan
Crow/Flathead
regalia
decorative
beadwork
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.07.0003
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Date
1940 – 1960
Material
glass; fibre
Catalogue Number
103.01.0343
Description
A long rectangular pendant, beaded on a loom, of transparent glass beads with black eagle and red, white and blue shield below. The pendant comes to point at the top and hangs from a tied loop of cord twisted from the warp ends of the supporting strings. The eagle has "US" beaded on its body with…
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Title
Beaded Pendant
Date
1940 – 1960
Material
glass; fibre
Dimensions
4.7 x 21.5 cm
Description
A long rectangular pendant, beaded on a loom, of transparent glass beads with black eagle and red, white and blue shield below. The pendant comes to point at the top and hangs from a tied loop of cord twisted from the warp ends of the supporting strings. The eagle has "US" beaded on its body with transparent beads, and the shield contains alternating red and white vertical stripes with a blue field across the top containing five cross-shaped stars. A 4.5 cm fringe at bottom is formed of strands beaded with transparent beads. The pendant is buckled in area above the eagle's head.
Subject
households
adornment
decorative
beadwork
crafts
symbolism, American
Credit
Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
103.01.0343
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Date
1915 – 1925
Material
hair, sheep
Catalogue Number
103.07.1048 a,b
Description
Narrow, woven belts, Central or South American, a: 128.0 x 3.0 colour, reversible woven belt, both edges are purple, red and white geometric pattern throughout with a pink and green centre stripe. b: 120.0 x 2.55, 3 colour reversible woven belt, red and white geometric design, one edge has darker…
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Title
Belts
Date
1915 – 1925
Material
hair, sheep
Dimensions
3.0 x 128.0 cm
Description
Narrow, woven belts, Central or South American, a: 128.0 x 3.0 colour, reversible woven belt, both edges are purple, red and white geometric pattern throughout with a pink and green centre stripe. b: 120.0 x 2.55, 3 colour reversible woven belt, red and white geometric design, one edge has darker red.
Subject
Indigenous
South American
regalia
Credit
Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
Catalogue Number
103.07.1048 a,b
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