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The Columbia River highway : America's greatest scenic drive

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20084
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1801
Author
Cross and Dimmitt
Call Number
02.3 C87t
Author
Cross and Dimmitt
Published Date
1801
Physical Description
Portland, Oregon : Cross and Dimmitt
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Columbia River
Art
Travel
Tourism
Abstract
Pertains to a collection of hand colored images showcasing the beauty of Oregon in the United States of America. The publication follows the Columbia River highway, a stretch of road reaching west from Portland to the Pacific, and east to Central Oregon. The publication showcases various tourist locations in addition to other breathtaking hand-colored images.
Accession Number
3069 a
Call Number
02.3 C87t
Collection
Archives Library
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Yokkaichi, Mie River, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.02
Description
A waterfront scene. A breakwater runs from left bottom corner to the right and off it is a brown plank bridge. A bald-headed man in blue is chasing a yellow hat to the left bottom corner on the breakwater, another person is on the bridge, he has on a yellow coat and light orange hat. A lone bushy b…
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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Title
Yokkaichi, Mie River, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
25 x 36 cm
Description
A waterfront scene. A breakwater runs from left bottom corner to the right and off it is a brown plank bridge. A bald-headed man in blue is chasing a yellow hat to the left bottom corner on the breakwater, another person is on the bridge, he has on a yellow coat and light orange hat. A lone bushy branched tree is in centre of picture, a row of reeds runs through centre of picture, some brown topped houses are to left centre. Dark royal blue and green lower part of picture, aqua marine in centre, blue sky line. A stripe of red/brown runs along top of picture.
Subject
landscape
river
Mie River
figure
male
activity,running
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.02
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The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido

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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of pic…
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Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858, Japanese)
Title
The Tenryu River at Mitsuke, from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido
Date
1834
Medium
woodblock on paper
Dimensions
22 x 34 cm
Description
Two boats, two people in one of them, are nosed up to sandbar. The sandbar runs through middle of picture. More boats and men on other side of sandbar. Some men are on the bar loading a llama. Two rows of trees are silhouetted top left. The water is blue, a strip of dark blue runs across top of picture.
Subject
landscape
river
Tenryu River
activity
boating
figures
male
female
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
HiU.04.04
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Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, and the Russian acquisitions in the confines of India and China

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue264
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1860
Author
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
Publisher
London : Hurst & Blackett
Call Number
DK755 A8
Author
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
Publisher
London : Hurst & Blackett
Published Date
1860
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Amur River
Asia
Siberia
Notes
Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
Call Number
DK755 A8
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Report on the geology of the country near the Forty-ninth Parallel of North Latitude west of the Rocky Mountains : from observations made 1859-1861

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5319
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1884
Author
Bauerman, H
Publisher
Montreal : Dawson Brothers
Call Number
03.1 G29rp 1882-84
Author
Bauerman, H
Publisher
Montreal : Dawson Brothers
Published Date
1884
Physical Description
42p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Columbia River
Kootenay River
Paleontology
Accession Number
400
Call Number
03.1 G29rp 1882-84
Collection
Archives Library
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Bow River Valley, Near Banff Hot Springs, Alberta on the Canadian Pacific Railway

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
1887
Author
Wm. Notman & Son
Call Number
P
Author
Wm. Notman & Son
Published Date
1887
Physical Description
p.12, ill.
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Banff
Bow River
Rundle, Mount
Tunnel Mountain
Notes
In The Dominion Illustrated [newspaper], vol.1, (July 1887)
Photograph on p.12, description on p.6 under "Our Engravings"
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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Part Of
Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
Scope & Content
Image of various boats, mostly canoes, on the Bow River with a dock in the background
Date Range
1887
Reference Code
V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 687
Description Level
6 / Item
GMD
Photograph
  2 images  
Part Of
Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
Description Level
6 / Item
Fonds Number
M36 / V683 / S37
Series
V683 / III / A / 15 : Peter and Catharine Whyte: Collected Photographs
Sous-Fonds
V683
Accession Number
.
Reference Code
V683 / III / A / 15 / PA - 687
GMD
Photograph
Date Range
1887
Physical Description
Photograph: 1 print ; b&w.
Scope & Content
Image of various boats, mostly canoes, on the Bow River with a dock in the background
Subject Access
Banff Regatta
Boats
Bow River
Buildings
Geographic Access
Banff
Banff National Park
Language
English
Title Source
Title based on item
Processing Status
Processed
Images
thumbnail
thumbnail
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Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887

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Artist
C. Firth
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
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Artist
C. Firth
Title
Banff Springs Hotel, Rocky Mountains 1887
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
12.0 x 16.0 cm
Description
Scene showing Banff springs hotel at right perched on a hillside. In the background the Bow River winds through a valley between Tunnel Mountain and Mt. Roundly. More mountains in distance. Trees in foreground. My. Roundly is hazy, almost unfinished in appearance.
Subject
mountains
Banff
Bow River
Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.01
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Artist
C. Firth
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.02
Description
Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
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Artist
C. Firth
Title
Bow River NWT, 1887
Date
1887
Medium
watercolour on paper
Dimensions
12.0 x 16.0 cm
Description
Large river [The Bow River] with snow-capped mountains at back and stands of conifers on the banks. River winds from left foreground into right background. Stand of trees at right foreground.
Subject
mountains
Banff
Bow River
Alberta
Credit
Gift of Dorothy and Jim McLeod, Calgary, 2021
Catalogue Number
FiC.05.02
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Daylight land : the experiences, incidents, and adventures, humorous and otherwise, which befel Judge John Doe, tourist, of San Francisco; Mr. Cephas Pepperell, capitalist of Boston; Colonel Goffe, the man from New Hampshire, and divers others, in their parlor-car excursion over prairie and mountain

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14131
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1888
Author
Murray, William Henry Harrison
Publisher
Boston : Cupples and Hurd
Call Number
05.2 M96d
Author
Murray, William Henry Harrison
Responsibility
as recorded and set forth by W.H.H. Murray; illustrated ... under the supervision of J.B. Millet
Publisher
Boston : Cupples and Hurd
Published Date
1888
Physical Description
338 p. incl. front., illus., plates.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff (townsite)
Vermilion Lakes
Bow River
Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
Canmore
Accession Number
7966
Call Number
05.2 M96d
Collection
Archives Library
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