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Old man's garden : the history and lore of southern Alberta wildflowers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25141
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Brown, Annora
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04.1 B81 2020
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- Author
- Brown, Annora
- Responsibility
- Annora Brown
- Mary-Beth Laviolette (introduction)
- Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black (forward)
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xxii, 268 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Folklore
- Art
- Flowers
- Brown, Annora
- Abstract
- Through pen and ink illustrations and stories, Old Man’s Garden conveys the legends and folklore connected with Southern Alberta’s wildflowers, native plants, and Indigenous culture. Originally published in 1954, Annora Brown’s Old Man’s Garden is a Canadian classic that tells the story of Southern Alberta’s native plants and wildflowers through art and in consideration of Indigenous traditional knowledge from the region. Accompanying the new RMB edition of Old Man’s Garden, Sidney Black of Fort Macleod, the Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Treaty 7, provides his own commentary about Annora’s art and writing in relation to the Blackfoot, while independent art curator Mary-Beth Laviolette broadens the story about the artist’s contribution to Canadian art. Also included in this new edition are full-colour images of Annora’s later paintings of Blackfoot lodges (tipis) and regalia, the dramatic landscape of the Oldman RIver region such as Waterton National Park, and her abiding, lifelong regard for the flora of her homeland. According to Annora Brown, Old Man’s Garden is a “book of gossip about the flowers of the West.” A one-of-a-kind work featuring 169 black-and-white drawings of flowers and native plants, this classic text is about more than botany. Throughout its pages there is a sparkle to her stories of early exploration and settlement, her concern for conservation, and her regard for the Blackfoot Nation, and Indigenous culture. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Forward by Niitsitapi (Siksika) Bishop - the Right Reverand Sidney Black
- Introduction to the new edition by Mary-Beth Laviolette
- Introduction to the 1954 edition
- I Wi-suk-i-tshak
- II Trail Blazers
- III Moon-When-the-Grass-Turns-Green
- IV Old Man's Vegetable Garden
- V Old Man's Medicine Bag
- VI Dyes
- VII Desert and Swamp
- VIII Incense
- IX Moon-of-the-Flowers
- X Berries
- XI Trees
- Index
- Notes
- Originally published in 1954 by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and 1970 by Gray's Publishing Co.
- ISBN
- 9781771603447
- Accession Number
- P2020-6
- Call Number
- 04.1 B81 2020
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book on Rocky Mountain Book's website
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Nature on the page : the print and manuscript culture of Victorian natural history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25230
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
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- Author
- Zytaruk, Maria
- Responsibility
- Maria Zytaruk
- Publisher
- Toronto : The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 158 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Botany
- Birds
- Art
- History
- Exhibition catalogue
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- This is the catalogue to an exhibition that will showcase both the collecting and manuscript practices of Victorian naturalists and how books, in some instances, encased the specimens themselves. A special focus here is women practitioners of natural history--as authors of and contributors to published works, and as artists and collectors (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Plans and the matter of the Victorian book
- Chapter 2: Paper birds
- Chapter 3: Containing nature
- Chapter 4: Women in the world of Victorian botany
- Chapter 5: Orchids for the few
- Epilogue
- Appendix: List of itmes in the exhibition
- ISBN
- 9780772761262
- Accession Number
- 2021.07
- Call Number
- 04 Z1n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publishers website
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
1 website
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Treasures of the trail : a nature guide to Edworthy Park, Lawrey Gardens and the Douglas Fir Trail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20078
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Osborn, Jerry
- The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Publisher
- Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Call Number
- 04 O1t
1 website
- Responsibility
- Jerry Osborn
- The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Publisher
- Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 164 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports.
- Subjects
- Botany
- Wildlife
- Archaeology
- History
- History of Alberta
- Maps
- Ecology
- Calgary
- Calgary, Alberta
- Walking
- Tours
- Guidebook
- Guidebooks
- Trails
- Abstract
- Pertains to Edworthy Park in Calgary, Alberta, including the geology, paleontology, plant life, animal life, insect life, archaeology, Indigenous Peoples history, settler history and maps of walks which include plant and bird checklists. The three brick plants that operated in what is now Edworthy Park: Burnvale, Brickburn, Tregillus Clay Products were used to construct many buildings in Banff.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Geology and Paleontology
- Plant Life
- Animal Life
- Butterflies
- Archaeology and Native Culture
- History
- Park Map
- Walk One - Wester Plateau of Edworthy Park
- Walk Two - Brickburn and the Pond Lookout Trail
- Walk Three - Edworthy Park Riverside
- Walk Four - Douglas Fire Trail West
- Walk Five - Quarry Road Trail, Lawrey Gardens, and Douglas Fire Trail East
- Appendix One - Plant Checklist
- Appendix Two - Bird Checklist
- Contributors
- Further Reading
- Index of Photos
- Notes
- Brick information as per Ann Jones conversation with Lena Goon.
- ISBN
- 0973176105
- Accession Number
- 2014.8268
- Call Number
- 04 O1t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- City of Calgary website re: Edworthy Park location and trail maps
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Edward W. D. Holway : a pioneer of the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19831
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
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- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 81p. : ill., port., map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Canada
- Selkirk Range
- Botany
- Abstract
- Mountaineers will find in this little volume the authentic account of the ascents in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks which made the name of E. W. D. Holway so well known to the climbing fraternity not many years ago. Readers who may never have seen a mountain will enjoy the book simply as the true tale of a remarkable man whogave up commercial pursuits to become a professor of botany and an explorer of little-known Alpine ranges. The book is composed largely of Mr. Holway’s intimate letters and diaries which tell his story with an engaging touch that continually makes light of the dangers, difficulties and hardships inseparable from pioneer work. The trials and tribulations of “backpacking” are graphically portrayed by the author. The book was designed to cover, as a part of a well-rounded biography, the mountaineering experiences of its subject. We think that the task has been well done and commend the work to the attention of readers interested in the Canadian Alps. Mr. Palmer’s book, with an introduction by the late Professor J. Arthur Harris, former head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota, is enriched with illustrations of many of the peaks referred to in the text. It is very well printed and attractive in format. (From American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Preface
- A pioneer of the Canadian Alps
- Earliest climbs
- The maturity of mountaineer
- The first expedition into the Cariboos
- Conclusion
- Supplementary letters
- List of ascents and explorations by Edward W.D. Holway
- Mountaineering papers by Edward W.D. Holway
- Notes
- Annotated by Ernest Feuz
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book review as per the American Alpine Club
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Smithsonain Institution : Mary Vaux Walcott wildflowers : donor edition
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24938
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1925
- Author
- Vaux Walcott, Mary
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Call Number
- 04.1 W14m O.S.
1 website
- Author
- Vaux Walcott, Mary
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published Date
- 1925
- Physical Description
- 1 portfolio (1 folded sheet, 5 plates, 4 loose leaves) : color illustrations, portraits
- Abstract
- Pertains to wildflower prints by Mary Vaux Walcott reprinted by the Smithsonian Institution as a "Donor Edition - Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program" - short write up about the process and her career with 5 prints on rag paper created using the "Smithsonian Process"
- Contents
- White Epidendrum - epidendrum nocturnum Jaquin - 337 - MVW - 1925
- Silverberry - elaeagnus commutata [additional single print - no write up] - 70 - MVW
- Goldenpea - thermopsis rhombifolia (Nuttal) Richardson - 297 - MVW - 1925
- Missouri Pricklypear - opuntia polyacantha - Haworth - 35 - MVW - 1925
- Rabbitbean - cracca virginiana - Linnaeus - 44 - MVW - 1925
- Notes
- Contributing Membership Smithsonian National Associate Program
- Accession Number
- 3089 (single print)
- 3077 (portfolio)
- Call Number
- 04.1 W14m O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Mary Vaux Walcott spotlight with images of wildflower prints on the Smithsonian Art Museum website
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