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Charlie Russell fonds

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Part Of
Charlie Russell fonds
Scope & Content
The Charlie Russell fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the filming of "Grizzly Country", ranching, friends and family, wildlife, and recreational activities, ca.1961-ca.1968. The majority of the images were made in the Waterton Lakes area. There are some images made in New York City, Briti…
Date Range
ca.1961-ca.1968
Reference Code
V557
Description Level
1 / Fonds
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Transparency
Part Of
Charlie Russell fonds
Description Level
1 / Fonds
Fonds Number
V 557
Sous-Fonds
V557
Accession Number
7728
Reference Code
V557
GMD
Photograph
Negative
Transparency
Date Range
ca.1961-ca.1968
Physical Description
ca. 2520 photographs : b&w negatives ; 35 mm and 4x5, 2 transparencies; col.
History / Biographical
Andrew Charles "Charlie" Russell (August 19, 1941 – May 7, 2018) was a naturalist, photographer, pilot, wilderness guide, and rancher. One of the son's of Andy Russell and Kay Russell and grandson of Bert Riggall, Charlie grew up at the Hawk's Nest ranch on the N.E. boundary of Waterton Lake National Park.
Alongside his brother Dick Russell, Charlie assisted his father Andy in the production and filming of Grizzly Country throughout the Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, and Alaska from 1961-1964. In 1967 he returned to the Tolkat River in Alaska to photograph and observe bears alone. In 1970 he purchased a large percentage of his fathers land on Waterton's north-east border to run a cattle operation. In 1991, he made his first visit to Princess Royal Island, British Columbia, and began photographing for "Spirit Bear", a book of photographs and writings published in 1994. Beginning in 1997, Charlie spent 6 years among the grizzlies of Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia alongside artist and partner Maureen Enns. After returning to Alberta from Russia, Charlie continued to be a conservation advocate until he passed from a surgery-related complication in May 2018.
The bulk of Charlie Russell's work was destroyed in a house fire in [1991?].
Scope & Content
The Charlie Russell fonds consists of photographs pertaining to the filming of "Grizzly Country", ranching, friends and family, wildlife, and recreational activities, ca.1961-ca.1968. The majority of the images were made in the Waterton Lakes area. There are some images made in New York City, British Columbia, and Alaska. The fonds is comprised of two series: I. Black and white negatives; II. Transparencies; I. Black and white negatives consists of A. 1964, B. Waterton Park Flood, June 8-9, 1963, C. 35mm Books, D. 4x5 Book, E. Bert Riggall Copy Negatives. II. Transparencies consist of two 4x5 colour transparencies depicting Cal Wellman's Cattle.
Notes
I.C. was received in the form of three separate negative books. The books have been arranged numerically in subseries I.C, with the negative book book and page number of origin written on the negative sleeves. For example, V557/I/C/NA-1a to NA-6e [Book 1, pg. 1,2].
Select 35mm negatives in I.C. are marked with red stickers and overlaid with rectangles on the negative sleeve. These negatives correspond to the negatives used in "Spirit Bear" and their cropping for publication. Each image is listed and described in the case file on the document titled "These are the negs used in Spirit Bear Chapter One". Some of the dots have a number corresponding to the document, others do not (the stickers were taken from the original negative sleeves and re-applied to the new negative sleeves).
Name Access
Russell, Andrew Charles (Charlie)
Russell, Charlie
Russell, Andy
Riggall, Bert
Subject Access
Environment
Sports, recreation and leisure
Science and technology
Natural resources
Education
Hawk's Nest Ranch
Bears
Wildlife
Geographic Access
Waterton Lakes National Park
Mount McKinley
Canada
Alberta
Alaska
British Columbia
United States of America
Language
English
Finding Aid
Revised digital and original handwritten in case file
Related Material
Related by provenance to a portion of Andy Russell fonds.
Creator
Russell, Charlie
Category
Education
Environment
Sports, recreation and leisure
Science and technology
Natural resources
Biographical Source Notes
Accession record.
Handwritten documents in case file.
"Spirit Bear, Encounters with the White Bear of the Western Rainforest", Charlie Russell, 1994, Key Porter Books Limited. Pg 12-25.
https://charlierussellbears.com/
Title Source
Title based on contents of fonds
Processing Status
Processed
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Current Events [January - March 1940]

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Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Scope & Content
Scrapbook is handmade from coloured construction paper. Scrapbook has annotated title page which reads "Current Events January February March". Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to media coverage of World War II from early 1940.
Date Range
1940
Reference Code
LUX / III / B4 - 25
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Textual record
Scrapbook
Newspaper clipping
  1 image     1 Electronic Resource  
Part Of
Luxton family fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
LUX
Series
III.B.4. Georgina Luxton : Collected Material : Textual Records
Sous-Fonds
III. Luxton Family sous-fonds
Accession Number
LUX
Reference Code
LUX / III / B4 - 25
GMD
Textual record
Scrapbook
Newspaper clipping
Date Range
1940
Physical Description
1.5 cm of textual records
Scope & Content
Scrapbook is handmade from coloured construction paper. Scrapbook has annotated title page which reads "Current Events January February March". Scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to media coverage of World War II from early 1940.
Notes
Some pages are annotated in pen with dates [presumably the month and year of publication of each page's respective articles].
Name Access
Churchill, Winston
Subject Access
Commerce and industry
Finances
Geography
Government
History
Labour
Laws and legislation
Military
Newspaper
Politics
Public events
Public Speaking
Royalty
War
World War II
Geographic Access
Canada
Russia
Japan
Germany
United States of America
England
Finland
Italy
India
Brazil
Argentina
Access Restrictions
Restrictions may apply
Reproduction Restrictions
Restrictions may apply
Language
English
Conservation
Several metal paperclips have been removed and replaced with plastic clips due to visible rust damage and risk of contaminating other materials in scrapbook
Metal bindings of scrapbook have been replaced with unbleached string for preservation reasons.
Related Material
Scrapbook LUX/III/B4/25 is part of collection of related scrapbooks [LUX / III / B4 / 24 to 28] covering global current events, commerce and political news from 1938-1940.
Category
Commerce and industry
Communications
Government
Labour
Military
Politics
Science and technology
Title Source
Title based on contents of item
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
thumbnail
Less detail
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