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Trestles at the Loop
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbes.05.04
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.04
- Description
- Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
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- Title
- Trestles at the Loop
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- 31.0 x 47.7 cm
- Description
- Kicking Horse Pass. Train trestle bridges wind around bases of mountains in valley.Ross Peak in background.
- Credit
- Purchased from Masters Gallery ltd., Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- BeS.05.04
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- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.02.03
- Description
- Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark br…
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- Title
- His Haunt
- Date
- 1893
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 30.5 cm
- Description
- Scene in a forest with a stream. Overall green value of the painting, - there is a herring standing in the steam just below center at the narrowest part where the stream seems to drop to a lower level. - dark green shadows across the top of the trees where they appear to canopy the scene. - dark brown bank to the left of the steam, and a dark green/yellow to the right of the stream.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- heron
- stream
- Credit
- Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1982
- Catalogue Number
- CoJ.02.03
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Castle Mountain Siding
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactzoc.13.01
- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…
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- Artist
- C. Zollern
- Title
- Castle Mountain Siding
- Date
- 1895
- Medium
- watercolour; photograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 34.8 x 47.5 cm
- Description
- Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- ZoC.13.01
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Rockies in Moonlight
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactrug.02.01
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- RuG.02.01
- Description
- Moonlit scene of the Canadian Rockies. The snowy peaks of a mountain are lit up by a crescent shaped moon in the top right corner. A wall of blue and grey mountain makes up most of the painting. The impression of trees is visible at the base of the mountain. The sky is a dark blue.
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- Title
- Rockies in Moonlight
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- Moonlit scene of the Canadian Rockies. The snowy peaks of a mountain are lit up by a crescent shaped moon in the top right corner. A wall of blue and grey mountain makes up most of the painting. The impression of trees is visible at the base of the mountain. The sky is a dark blue.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- night
- moonlight
- Credit
- Purchased from The Collector’s Gallery, Calgary, 2004
- Catalogue Number
- RuG.02.01
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Castor Peak, Pollux Peak and the Asulkan Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactric.18.17
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- RiC.18.17
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Asulkan Glacier, Castor Peak and Pollux Peak in Glacier National Park. In the foreground along the bottom of the image there is a rocky area. Snow and swirling snow make up the middle portion of the image. The Mountain peaks are visible through the snow.
- Title
- Castor Peak, Pollux Peak and the Asulkan Glacier
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Black and white photograph of Asulkan Glacier, Castor Peak and Pollux Peak in Glacier National Park. In the foreground along the bottom of the image there is a rocky area. Snow and swirling snow make up the middle portion of the image. The Mountain peaks are visible through the snow.
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- RiC.18.17
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Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbod.18.01
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- BoD.18.01
- Description
- Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.
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- Title
- Lone Tree Below Illecillewaet Glacier
- Date
- 2000
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Colour photograph of tree in foreground. Behind it there is a mountain landscape. Around the tree is a rocky area. Clouds extend across the sky.
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- BoD.18.01
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Trails and tales, 1983-1999
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11377
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Calgary : J&J Publishing
- Call Number
- 02.7 Sk9t
- Responsibility
- edited by Virginia Klatzel and Anne M. Stang
- Publisher
- Calgary : J&J Publishing
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 112 p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 7284
- Call Number
- 02.7 Sk9t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Chief Man-of-Many-Sides: John Murray Gibbon and his contributions to the development of tourism and the arts in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue11468
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2000
- Author
- Kines, Gary Bret
- Publisher
- Michigan : UMI Dissertation Services
- Call Number
- 08.1 K57c
- Author
- Kines, Gary Bret
- Publisher
- Michigan : UMI Dissertation Services
- Published Date
- 2000
- Physical Description
- 214 p. : ill., map, facsim
- Subjects
- Biography
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Ethnic groups
- Highland gatherings
- Leighton A.C
- Palenske, R.H
- Rungius, Carl
- Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index. Reproduction of thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Canadian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, 1988
- ISBN
- 0-315-68827-0
- Accession Number
- 01-23-01 33,500
- Call Number
- 08.1 K57c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Forward-looking Canadians of the West left their homes to reflect a way of life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12788
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Call Number
- 06 B22c Pam
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- p.34-38 : ill
- Subjects
- Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Notes
- In Country's Best Log Homes, May 2001. Article pertains to the Heritage Homes of Peter and Catharine Whyte, Philip and Pearl Moore, Bill Peyto, Jack Sinclair, Mather family and Windy Cabin
- Call Number
- 06 B22c Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Motion Pictures: B20: Looking for the Body in the Upper Vaux Glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactcwd.18.05
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Catalogue Number
- CwD.18.05
- Description
- Photograph of Vaux glacier which looks as if it was taken as a still image from a motion picture. In the upper left corner is sky which is slightly sepia coloured. It looks as if the image has been overexposed in this area. Below the sky the glacier is visible. A mountain rises up to the right …
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- Title
- Motion Pictures: B20: Looking for the Body in the Upper Vaux Glacier
- Date
- 2001
- Medium
- photograph on photographic paper
- Description
- Photograph of Vaux glacier which looks as if it was taken as a still image from a motion picture. In the upper left corner is sky which is slightly sepia coloured. It looks as if the image has been overexposed in this area. Below the sky the glacier is visible. A mountain rises up to the right of the work as a dark area.
- Subject
- landscape
- Canadian Rockies
- Vaux glacier
- Credit
- Purchased from Robert Smith, Banff, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- CwD.18.05
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