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Description: Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”

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Title: Picture

Date: 1965

Material: glass; wood; paper; grass

Description: Black framed, glass covered dried flower specimen mounted on green paper. A description of the plant is written in pen “...found on Mt. Cautley-Assiniboine at altitude of 9318 ft. in 1965.”

Subject: Elizabeth Rummel; botany; hobbies; sports; hiking; plants

Credit: Gift of Elizabeth Rummel, Banff, 1981

Catalogue Number: 107.02.1018

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Petrified Wood

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Date: prior to 1800

Material: wood

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1012

Description: A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.

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Title: Petrified Wood

Date: prior to 1800

Material: wood

Dimensions: 12.1 x 15.3 x 16.0 cm

Description: A piece of petrified wood. It is a portion of a large piece broken at both ends.

Subject: pre history; paleontology; botany

Credit: Gift of Bill de Haan, Canmore, 1970

Catalogue Number: 112.03.1012

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Mary Warren Correspondence

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Part Of: Archives General File Collection

Scope & Content: File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Bil…

Date Range: 1936-1937

Reference Code: M8 / accn. 4005

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Private record; Textual record

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Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M8 / S8 / V8

Sous-Fonds: M8

Accession Number: 4005

Reference Code: M8 / accn. 4005

GMD: Private record; Textual record

Date Range: 1936-1937

Physical Description: 0.2 cm of textual records (8 pages ; 27.9 x 21.6 cm)

Scope & Content: File pertains to 4 type written letters written by Mary [Shaffer] Warren to Minnie Nickell regarding the former's first visit and subsequent survey of Maligne Lake in 1908, place names, botany, Jamaica, personal matters, and various individuals including Samuel Allen, J. Norman Collie, William "Billy" Warren, Mary Jobe, and Nellie McClung. Also inlcudes a newspaper clipping of Mary's obituary from 1939. Minnie Nickell and Mary Warren became acquainted during the 1930s through a mutual friend, a Mrs. Armstrong of Owen Sound, Ontario.

Name Access: Schaffer, Mary; Schaffer, Mary Townsend Sharples; Warren, Billy; Warren, Mary Schaffer

Subject Access: Botany; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; Glacier House; Guides; Horses; Packing; Personal and Family Life; Scouting; Surveying; Travel; Travel and Exploration

Geographic Access: Maligne Lake; Jasper National Park; Alberta

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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