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[Christmas Card and Photograph Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk…

Date Range: 1949-1958

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 12

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1949-1958

Physical Description: 1 album (173 prints : b&w and col. ; 25 x 22.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing some photographs of various Alpine Club of Canada, American Alpine Club, Sky-Line Trail Hikers of the Canadian Rockies, and personal trips. Photographs primarily depict mountain views, buildings, lakes, and people, some of whom are identified. The bulk of the album is dedicated to Christmas cards sent to Lillian Gest by various people from 1949-1958. Inserts pertain to two photographs of a group of people sitting on the front porch of a cabin in Lake O'Hara. Ernest Feuz is seated far right.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Feuz, Ernest; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Lake O'Hara region; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Mount Assiniboine; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Conservation: Rehoused with acid-free paper and flat string - flat string tied around book to hold pages together.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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[Photographs and Christmas Cards Album]

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Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpi…

Date Range: 1938-1948

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 11

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

1 image 1 Electronic Resource

Part Of: Lillian Gest fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M67 / S36 / V225

Series: II.C. Activities / photography

Sous-Fonds: V225

Sub-Series: ii.b. Photographic material / photograph album

Accession Number: 5142

Reference Code: V225 / II / C / ii / b / PD - 11

GMD: Album; Photograph print; Postcard

Date Range: 1938-1948

Physical Description: 1 album (306 photographs : b&w ; 23 x 18 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to a photograph album containing photographs from various trips taken by Lillian Gest, some of which include Alpine Club of Canada Annual Trips, and Christmas cards sent to Gest by various friends and club members. Greeting cards are dated from 1938-1948. Contents include: 1938: [Alpine Club camp, Columbia Icefields; Maligne Lake and canyon, Caroline Hinman trip; Banff; Lake Louise; Christian Hasler]. 1939: [Ptarmigan Lake; Crosby Lake; Mount Vaux, Mount Ennis and Hanbury Peak; Ice River Valley; Goodsirs; Kate Gardiner; Phyllis Munday; Eric Brooks; Charles Hunter ranch, Pincher Creek; postcards of Washington and Oregon]. 1940: [Mount Athabasca; Lyell Glacier; Wapta River; Christian Hasler; Mount Waddington, Phyllis and Don Munday]. 1941: [Banff Indian Days; climbing Mount Odaray]. 1942: [Three Sisters; White Man's Pass area; Grassi Lakes; Bow River; Banff Indian Days; Lake Louise area; Mounts Temple, Fay and Pinnacle; Mount Quadra; Mount Neptuak from Tower of Babel]. 1943: [Lake O'Hara, Alpine Club camp; Browne home, Banff; Mount Edith]. 1946: [Bow Lake; Jimmy and Billie Simpson; St. Nicholas Peak]. 1948?: [Lake Minnewanka; Bow Lake; Mount Chephren; Peyto Glacier; Mount Rhonda; Dolomite Peak; Mummery Group; Freshfields; Mount Baker; Sherbrooke Lake; Mount Daly; Mount Balfour]. Inserts pertain to two typed text letters from Caroline Hinman to Lillian Gest and discuss various Off the Beaten Track information.

Notes: Blank pages not scanned. Inserts are photocopies of the originals that were included with the album.

Name Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Gest, Lillian; Hinman, Caroline; Whyte, Peter; Whyte, Catharine

Subject Access: Alpine Club of Canada; Activities; Animals; Bighorn Sheep; Buildings; Camps; Christmas; Climbing; Correspondence; Exploration; Family and personal life; First Nations; Glaciers; Huts; Horses; Horse packing; Indigenous Peoples; Moose; Mountains; Mountaineering; Mountain Goat; Off the Beaten Track; Postcards; Portrait; Scenery; Travel

Geographic Access: Jasper National Park; Banff National Park; Yoho National Park; Mount Assiniboine; British Columbia; Alberta; Canada

Access Restrictions: Microfilm copy available for reference use by appointment only.

Language: English

Conservation: Removed from plastic sleeve and rehoused in acid-free paper, tied with flat string. Locate original copies of inserts and return them to PD - 11 Documents file - notes on the backs of the inserts note that the originals were moved to M67 but the documents could not be found.

Creator: Gest, Lillian

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Seasons Greeting Catharine and Peter 1948

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.725

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1948 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine can be seen in their jeep stopped with a moose infront of them. In the background there are trees, water and a mountain range. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” are written. In the BRC …

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greeting Catharine and Peter 1948

Date: 1948

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 14.9 x 25.5 cm

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1948 Christmas card. Peter and Catharine can be seen in their jeep stopped with a moose infront of them. In the background there are trees, water and a mountain range. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” are written. In the BRC of the drawing “Peter Whyte 1948” is signed.

Subject: Christmas card; moose; jeep; figures; couple; trees; water; mountains

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.725

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Seasons Greetings

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1948 – 1948

Medium: graphite; ink on pen; watercolour

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.259

Description: Postcard size image of Peter and Catharine’s 1948 Christmas card. To the right, a man and a woman are in a green jeep full of baggage. A large moose stands in front of them on the left facing the jeep. Mountains and water are in the background and the sky is blue.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings

Date: 1948 – 1948

Medium: graphite; ink on pen; watercolour

Dimensions: 10.5 x 16.0 cm

Description: Postcard size image of Peter and Catharine’s 1948 Christmas card. To the right, a man and a woman are in a green jeep full of baggage. A large moose stands in front of them on the left facing the jeep. Mountains and water are in the background and the sky is blue.

Subject: moose; Christmas card

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.259

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.724

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Catharine is serving a group of animals some food around the Dutch door of her home. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” is written and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” and Peter’s signature with “49” beside it can be seen.

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949

Date: 1949

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.8 x 23.3 cm

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Catharine is serving a group of animals some food around the Dutch door of her home. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” is written and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” and Peter’s signature with “49” beside it can be seen.

Subject: Christmas card; Dutch door; house; cabin; woman; moose; deer; bear; wolf; squirrel; bird; food; winter

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.724

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Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.726

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Catharine is seen at the Dutch door of her home offering food to the animals. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” and signed “Peter Whyte 49.”

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Seasons Greetings Catharine and Peter 1949

Date: 1949

Medium: ink on paper

Dimensions: 21.5 x 23.3 cm

Description: A detailed sketch of the 1949 Christmas card. Catharine is seen at the Dutch door of her home offering food to the animals. On the top edge “SEASONS GREETINGS” and on the bottom edge “CATHARINE AND PETER” and signed “Peter Whyte 49.”

Subject: Christmas card; winter; house; cabin; woman; moose; deer; bear; wolf; food; bird; Dutch door; squirrel

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.726

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1949

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.237

Description: Sketch and well-rendered versions of a Peter and Catharine Christmas card. The left is a rough colour sketch of a woman skiing down a hill meeting a man at the bottom with a camera. Hill is scattered with skiers that have fallen. A house or cabin peeks over the hill to the right in the background…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1949

Medium: graphite; ink on paper

Dimensions: 23.5 x 30.5 cm

Description: Sketch and well-rendered versions of a Peter and Catharine Christmas card. The left is a rough colour sketch of a woman skiing down a hill meeting a man at the bottom with a camera. Hill is scattered with skiers that have fallen. A house or cabin peeks over the hill to the right in the background. The woman leaves a curving line in the snow down the hill. The right side is a more final version in ink with more details. “Greetings 1949” printed in BRC.

Subject: Christmas Card; Peter; Catharine; skiing; snow; ski hill

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.237

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Untitled

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Date: 1948

Medium: ink on board

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.238

Description: Christmas Card with image of Catharine and Peter in a jeep packed with baggage and ski poles with a large moose in front of them. Mountains in the background. “Seasons Greetings” printed above mountains, “Catharine and Peter” printed in BLC, “Peter Whyte 1948” signed in BRC. Above Seasons Greeting…

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Artist: Peter Whyte (1905 – 1966, Canadian)

Title: Untitled

Date: 1948

Medium: ink on board

Dimensions: 26.6 x 34.2 cm

Description: Christmas Card with image of Catharine and Peter in a jeep packed with baggage and ski poles with a large moose in front of them. Mountains in the background. “Seasons Greetings” printed above mountains, “Catharine and Peter” printed in BLC, “Peter Whyte 1948” signed in BRC. Above Seasons Greetings in pencil “6” “.On reverse side “Size as per sample, Crag & Canyon” written in coloured pencil.

Subject: Christmas Card; Peter; Catharine; Whyte; moose; mountains; jeep; Seasons Greetings

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1975

Catalogue Number: WyP.03.238

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Woodworth family photographs, clubs and societies

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 21 photographs including 2 which are printed on postcard paper and 2 in personalized greeting cards. Content pertains to the Woodworth family house in Banff [ca. 1900], holiday greetings from family friends, a snowshoe race on the Bow River [1912], "wagoneer" Jim Stewart with a gov…

Date Range: [ca. 1900]; 1908; 1910 - 1912; [ca. 1925]; [ca. 1955 - ca. 1960]; [ca. 1970]

Reference Code: V324 / IV / E / PA - 29 to 47

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

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Part Of: Kidney family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M74 / V324

Series: V324 / IV : Family, friends and community records

Sous-Fonds: V324

Sub-Series: V324 / IV / E : Maude Kidney Collection

Accession Number: 3109

Reference Code: V324 / IV / E / PA - 29 to 47

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Two photographs produced by Byron Harmon

Date Range: [ca. 1900]; 1908; 1910 - 1912; [ca. 1925]; [ca. 1955 - ca. 1960]; [ca. 1970]

Physical Description: 21 photographs: b&w and col. prints ; 12.5 x 17.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 21 photographs including 2 which are printed on postcard paper and 2 in personalized greeting cards. Content pertains to the Woodworth family house in Banff [ca. 1900], holiday greetings from family friends, a snowshoe race on the Bow River [1912], "wagoneer" Jim Stewart with a government water wagon, Joe Woodworth and Jo Wardell with family on a trip to Oakville, Ontario, Maud Woodworth Kidney as a teenager and ca. 1970 with her son Jack, a lunch party, a Christmas party, events hosted by the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and the Order of the Eastern Star, a community play from 1911, the first CPR Depot [1908], ski jumping in Banff, the Banff Royal Canadian Legion war memorial cenotaph, and other community events involving the Kidney family.

Notes: File contains some duplicates; Photographs in this file were accompanied by notes made shortly before or after accession in 1979 giving names/contextual information about photographs. Some notes are by Jim Deegan, 1987. Information has been transferred to the back of each photograph.