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Photograph Album
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- Part Of
- Charles Reid fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album, comprising 183 photographs, H12 x W17.5 cm or smaller. Photographs pertain to Charlie Reid and his family and friends during, predominantly, the 1920's. The first photograph is of a child and man; the child looks like it could be Charlie Reid at around 4 to 5 …
- Date Range
- ca.1909 - ca.1929
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- 1927
- Reference Code
- V487 / I / PD - 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Album
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Private record
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- Part Of
- Charles Reid fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M413 / V487
- Series
- V487 / I : Albums
- Sous-Fonds
- V487
- Accession Number
- 5248
- Reference Code
- V487 / I / PD - 1
- Date Range
- ca.1909 - ca.1929
- 1922
- 1923
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- 1927
- Physical Description
- 1 album (183 photographs : b&w ; 17.5 x 12 cm or smaller)
- Scope & Content
- File consists of one photograph album, comprising 183 photographs, H12 x W17.5 cm or smaller.
- Photographs pertain to Charlie Reid and his family and friends during, predominantly, the 1920's. The first photograph is of a child and man; the child looks like it could be Charlie Reid at around 4 to 5 years old.
- Photographs document sports and recreation (races, sledding, skiing, snowshoeing, track, canoeing, golf, camping, horseback riding, fishing), events at the Banff Springs Hotel, Banff Indian Days, Banff Winter Carnival (Festival), Highland gathering, Herald road race, and various activities in and around Banff.
- Locations include: Banff, Medicine Hat, University of Alberta (Edmonton), and Lake Louise.
- Notes
- One of the photographs is a cut-out quote, "a canoo in foolish hands is probably the nation's greatest tipping well"
- Album is bound in brown leather with "photographs" written on the cover. Some of the photographs have captions. Not every page is filled.
- Name Access
- Reid, Charles
- Subject Access
- Banff
- Banff Indian Days
- Banff National Park
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Banff Winter Festival
- Bow River Bridge
- Camping
- Canoes and canoeing
- Children
- Cross-country skiing
- Dogs
- Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
- Fishing
- Golfing
- Hiking
- Hockey
- Horseback riding
- Ice sculpture
- Indigenous Peoples
- Leisure
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Public events
- Recreation
- Skating
- Snowshoes and snowshoeing
- Sports and recreation
- Sulphur Mountain lookout
- Swimming
- Winter sports
- Wildlife
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Canada
- Lake Louise
- Medicine Hat
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Netting Collection
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- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- ivory; wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0023 a-l
- Description
- A collection of netting supplies including four shuttles, three netting needles, two awls, eight mesh gauges, and a needle in cork. (a) shuttle (10.7 x .7 x 1.8) wooden, carved from one piece. Sides flat boat shapes joined by solid piece between allowing a lip inside the shuttle to accommodate th…
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- Title
- Netting Collection
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- ivory; wood; metal
- Description
- A collection of netting supplies including four shuttles, three netting needles, two awls, eight mesh gauges, and a needle in cork. (a) shuttle (10.7 x .7 x 1.8) wooden, carved from one piece. Sides flat boat shapes joined by solid piece between allowing a lip inside the shuttle to accommodate the thread when wrapped around. On one side carved initials "S.K." Note: surfaces and edges slightly scratched, gouged and nicked. (b) shuttle (8.0 x .9 x 2.2) black ebony, similar to (a) but separate block of wood post between riveted through sides with small brass pins, and points curved toward each other so as to almost touch. Small hole drilled through central post, wrapped with a long length of shiny, twisted silk or mercerized cotton cord. (c) shuttle (6.2 x .6 x 1.5) ivory, shaped as (a) but smaller. Two central posts fastened through each side with steel pins separate sides.(d) shuttle (7.2 x .1 x 1.1) flat, carved ivory with curved notch at end and rounded point at other. Cut out window at top with carved spike to hold thread when wound around spike, then down to notch at bottom and back up around spike. (e) netting needles (13.2 x .1 x .2) two fine, long, stainless steel needles, flattened at each end with a long slit eye which is split at the point, one end has additional small hole drilled through just below eye. (f) netting needle (17.3 x .3 x .8) as (e), but brass and larger, cruder split eyes at ends barely touch at tips. (g) awl (12.7 x .5 x .8) hardwood, smoothly shaped oval stick, tapering about halfway to very sharp, long point. character ? carved into end. Faintly handwritten along one side, "July 28 ? , 1849 ? ". (h) awl (7.1 x 1.0 diam) carved ivory. Knob at top carved with crosshatched notches at end, deeply carved rings and ferrules below, with long teardrop shaped shaft ending in blunt point. (i) mesh stick (11.3 x .3 diam) small ivory rod with blunt points each end. (ii) mesh stick (12.5 x .4 diam) as (i) but barely tapered one end, and large chip broken diagonally from other. (iii) mesh stick (17.0 x .25 diam) as (i) but pointed one end and barely at other. (iiii) mesh stick (11.4 x .3 diam) as (i) pointed one end and flat at other. (j) mesh stick (20.2 x .3 diam) long, flexible, black plastic ? rod, pointed at one end, and flat at other. (jj) mesh stick (16.3 x .5) ebony, as (i) but pointed both ends. (jjj) mesh stick (10.8 x .5) ebony as (jj) but barely rounded one end, and flat at other with small depression drilled in.(k) mesh stick (21.7 x .5) varnished wood, pointed one end, carved barely round at other. (l) needle in cork (7.4 x 2.4 diam) stainless steel needle (5.1 cm) with blunt point and small eye, stuck into bottle cork inn shape of truncated cone.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0023 a-l
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