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Bits and pieces, very interesting [scrapbook]

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook which contains mainly clippings, as well as some personal and family items, pertaining to Banff and region, events and personalities, mountain areas, local, regional and western Canadian history, and mountaineering expeditions and accomplishments. Material covers the p…

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Reference Code: M480 / 2

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M480 / V675

Series: I. Textual records

Sous-Fonds: M480

Accession Number: 4087

Reference Code: M480 / 2

GMD: Scrapbook

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Physical Description: 5 cm of textual records (93 pages ; 30 x 37 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook which contains mainly clippings, as well as some personal and family items, pertaining to Banff and region, events and personalities, mountain areas, local, regional and western Canadian history, and mountaineering expeditions and accomplishments. Material covers the period between ca.1900 and ca.1970

Name Access: Wells, Helen Fulmer

Subject Access: Architecture; Art; Buildings and facilities; Community events; Events; Family and personal life; History; Indigenous Peoples; Newspaper; Obituary; Oldtimers; Trains

Geographic Access: Banff; Canmore; Bow Valley; Banff National Park; Mount Assiniboine; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title supplied by Sylvia Vosburgh, daughter of Helen Wells, and written inside scrapbook

Processing Status: Processed

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Helen (Fulmer) Wells scrapbook

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing a broad selection of clippings, photographs and notes pertaining to the history of Banff, including development, events, buildings and personalities. Material pertains to the period between ca.1890 and ca.1970

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Reference Code: M480 / 1

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Scrapbook

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Part Of: Helen Fulmer Wells fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M480 / V675

Series: I. Textual records

Sous-Fonds: M480

Accession Number: 3881

Reference Code: M480 / 1

GMD: Scrapbook

Responsibility: Extensive annotation by Helen Wells and Sylvia Vosburgh

Date Range: [ca. 1950-1970]

Physical Description: 10 cm of textual records (190 pages ; 30.5 x 37 cm)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description.

Scope & Content: File consists of a scrapbook containing a broad selection of clippings, photographs and notes pertaining to the history of Banff, including development, events, buildings and personalities. Material pertains to the period between ca.1890 and ca.1970

Name Access: Wells, Helen Fulmer; Peyto, Bill; Luxton, Norman; Luxton, Eleanor; Liddell, Ken; Lonsdale, Tom; Phillips, Walter J.; Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.

Subject Access: Anniversary; Architecture; Art; Banff Crag and Canyon; Banff Indian Days; Bridges; Buildings and facilities; Community events; Community life; Events; Family and personal life; History; Hotels; Indigenous Peoples; Mountaineers; Newspaper; Obituary; Oldtimers; The Albertan; Townsite development

Geographic Access: Banff; Bankhead; Bow Lake; Lake Minnewanka; Bow Valley; Banff National Park; Alberta; Canada

Language: English

Title Source: Title supplied by Sylvia Vosburgh, daughter of Helen Wells and written on outside cover

Processing Status: Processed

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Letters to Mother [February - October 1931]

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Scope & Content: File pertains to 56 letters and envelopes written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1931 to October 1931. Topics include visiting J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto and meeting Lawren Harris, day to day life in Banff, skiing at Skoki, bringing materials out to Skoki in …

Date Range: 1931

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 85

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record

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Part Of: Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M36 / V683 / S37

Series: I.A.2. Catharine Robb Whyte papers / photographs

Sous-Fonds: M36

Accession Number: .

Reference Code: M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 85

GMD: Private record

Date Range: 1931

Physical Description: 1.3 cm of textual records (310 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)

History / Biographical: See fonds level description

Scope & Content: File pertains to 56 letters and envelopes written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from February 1931 to October 1931. Topics include visiting J.E.H. MacDonald in Toronto and meeting Lawren Harris, day to day life in Banff, skiing at Skoki, bringing materials out to Skoki in packs and by dogsled, Bill Oliver filming at Skoki, the description and construction details of Peter and Catharine's house and yard and moving in [including furniture details], shopping in Calgary for house items,a rock slide near Field, travel to Montana, people in Concord, installation of Peter and Catharine's paintings in the ballroom at the Banff Springs Hotel, the fire at Grand View Villa, attending the Calgary Stampede with Edmee Moore and Georgia Engelhard, painting portraits of Indigenous friends and Tom Wilson, Edith's visit to Banff, painting at Castle Mountain [including details about Joe Smith], Peter making picture frames, the visit of the King and Queen of Siam, and meeting new people, community members and house callers [including Cyril Paris, Victor Kutschera, Norman Knight, Bernie Hanson, Ike Mills, Erling Strom, Allan Mather, Betty Painter, Rick Smith, Mrs. Bill Brewster, Bill Carson, Mr. Coach, Spud White, Cliff White, Dr. Robinson, Cameron and Lila White Stockand, Mildred Jackson White, Annie White, Mr. and Mrs. Rungius, Charlie Beil, J.D. Curren, Sam Ward and Earl Spencer and others working on the Whyte Home, Mrs. Carr, Jackie White, Pearl and Philip Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Harmon, Casper McCullah, Dorothy White, Mrs. Childe, Mrs. Robertson, Bobby Hunter, William Twin, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Poucette, Hank Cheever, Mr. and Mrs. Leuning [Otto?], Barbara and Ruth Carpenter, Sid Graves, Mr. and Mrs. Forbes, Fred Armbrister, Mr. Gillet, Belmore Browne, Margaret Simpson, Betty Painter, and Jim and Dell Brewster.

Notes: Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoples, people of colour, and those of the Jewish faith used throughout is outdated and offensive. Some items were stapled together and therefore scanned together as one document. Letters are all handwritten and include some hotel, business, and camp letterheads. Some letters are marked with a small x in pencil, indicating where Jon Whyte made notes for use in his project "Catharine Robb Whyte, Peter Whyte: Commemorative Portfolio," originally published in 1981. Some letters also have numbers written in pencil crayon, believed to be from when originally processed.

Name Access: Whyte, Catharine; Whyte, Peter; White, Annie; White, Clifford; White, David Mackintosh (Dave); Paris, Cyril; Kutschera, Vic; Mather, Allan; MacDonald, J. E. H.; Harris, Lawren; Knight, Norman; Mills, Ike; Painter, Betty; White, Mildred; White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.); Strom, Erling; Ward, Sam; Spencer, Earl; Rungius, Carl; Beil, Charlie; Moore, Edmee; Moore, Pearl; Moore, Phil; Engelhard, Georgia; Wilson, Tom; Poucette, Mark; Twin, William

Subject Access: Hermits; Activities; Art; Artists; Banff; Calgary Stampede; Camps; Castle Mountain; Community events; Community life; Cross-country skiing; Dog Team; Family and personal life; First Nations; Home; Indigenous Peoples; Log structures; Personal and Family Life; Ski area; Ski lodges and cabins; Skiing; Stoney Nakoda; Whyte House; Mount Royal Hotel; Skoki Lodge; Ski Club of the Canadian Rockies; Skiing - History; Lake O'Hara Bungalow Camp

Geographic Access: Banff; Alberta; Calgary; Canadian Rocky Mountains; Concord; Skoki; Field; Montana; Castle Mountain; Yoho National Park; Lake O'Hara

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Luxton Museum construction and displays

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 78 photographs pertaining to the Luxton Museum and its displays, including the museum’s construction and the interior views of the museum and its displays. Some photographs depict Indigenous individuals [including John Hunter and unidentified Cree and Stoney Nakoda men] posing as m…

Date Range: 1951-1957

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / PA - 1 to 78

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

146 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D3 : Organizations

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / PA - 1 to 78

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Photographs LUX/I/D3e/PA-74 and 76 produced by Bruno Engler; LUX/I/D3e/PA -77 and 78 produced by Ernest Kehr

Date Range: 1951-1957

Physical Description: 78 photographs : b&w prints ; 17.5 x 12.5 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 78 photographs pertaining to the Luxton Museum and its displays, including the museum’s construction and the interior views of the museum and its displays. Some photographs depict Indigenous individuals [including John Hunter and unidentified Cree and Stoney Nakoda men] posing as models for display mannequins used in the Luxton Museum.

Notes: First three items in file signed on reverse side by “Roy”[?] [Ray?]; individual not further identified; File contains some duplicates

Material Details: Items LUX/I/D3e/PA-4 to 16 labelled as “Polaroid” photographs on back. Same items have folded paper attached to left side partly covering images

Name Access: Luxton, Norman; Hunter, John

Subject Access: Businesses; Buildings; Construction; Museums; Education; History; Indigenous Peoples

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff; British Columbia; Victoria

Language: English

Related Material: Item LUX/I/D3e/PA-63 has related negative photographs processed under reference codes LUX/I/D3e/NA-1 to 9

Category: Education; Indigenous Peoples; Labour

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Luxton Museum interior and exhibits

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 43 photographs pertaining to displays and views inside the Luxton Museum in Banff. Photographs depict artwork, taxidermy displays, wax figures, and visitors inside the museum.

Date Range: 1955; 1958; [1955-1960]

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / PA - 114 to 156

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

72 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D3 : Organizations

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / PA - 114 to 156

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Responsibility: Some photographs produced by Ernest Kehr

Date Range: 1955; 1958; [1955-1960]

Physical Description: 43 photographs : b&w and col. prints ; 25 x 20 cm or smaller

Scope & Content: File consists of 43 photographs pertaining to displays and views inside the Luxton Museum in Banff. Photographs depict artwork, taxidermy displays, wax figures, and visitors inside the museum.

Subject Access: Museums; Taxidermy; Indigenous Peoples; History; Animals; Luxton Museum

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Language: English

Category: Indigenous Peoples

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Luxton Museum interior and exterior views

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 15 photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton and the Luxton Museum. Includes images of Norman Luxton posing with display items, exterior views of the museum and surrounding landscape, and taxidermy and mannequin displays inside the museum.

Date Range: 1959

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / ii / PA - 1 to 15

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

29 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Professional and Personal

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D3 : Organizations

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / ii / PA - 1 to 15

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: 1959

Physical Description: 15 photographs : b&w prints ; 20.5 x 25 cm

Scope & Content: File consists of 15 photographs pertaining to Norman Luxton and the Luxton Museum. Includes images of Norman Luxton posing with display items, exterior views of the museum and surrounding landscape, and taxidermy and mannequin displays inside the museum.

Notes: Back sides of photographs stamped with “Glenbow Foundation Photograph” label and file numbers, each dated May 30, 1959.

Name Access: Luxton, Norman

Subject Access: Museums; History; Indigenous Peoples; Animals; Taxidermy; Mountain; Businesses; Landscapes

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; Banff

Access Restrictions: Copyright status and restrictions unknown

Reproduction Restrictions: Copyright status and restrictions unknown

Language: English

Category: Indigenous Peoples; Arts

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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Luxton Museum mannequin displays

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 16 colour transparency slides pertaining to Indigenous mannequin displays inside the Luxton Museum. Includes mannequin representing Chief Sitting Bull.

Date Range: 1953-1962

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / NS - 1 to 16

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

16 images

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Professional and Personal

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D3 : Organizations

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D3e / NS - 1 to 16

GMD: Photograph; Photograph print

Date Range: 1953-1962

Physical Description: 16 photographs : col. slides ; 35 mm

Scope & Content: File consists of 16 colour transparency slides pertaining to Indigenous mannequin displays inside the Luxton Museum. Includes mannequin representing Chief Sitting Bull.