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Bowling along: early travel adventures of Mary Morris Vaux
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14650
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Jones, Marjorie G
- Call Number
- 02.3 V46j Pam
- Author
- Jones, Marjorie G
- Responsibility
- Marjorie G. Jones
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- p.22-39 : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Vaux family
- Walcott, Mary Vaux
- Notes
- In Quaker History: the bulletin of Friends Historical Association, vol 100, no. 1 (Spring 2011).
- Contains bibliographic references
- Manuscript of the article to be in Quaker History sent to the Whyte Museum requestin permission to use a photograph of Mary Vaux Walcott
- Actual article in 02.3 V46j
- Call Number
- 02.3 V46j Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Legacy in time : three generations of mountain photography in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14441
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Responsibility
- Henry Vaux Jr.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 125 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Environment
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Photographers
- Photography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Vaux family
- Notes
- Includes bibliography references
- Repeat photography of glacier formations in the mountains of Western Canada, comparing the photographs taken by Vaux family members in the late 19th and early 20th century with photographs taken by Henry Vaux Jr. of in the early 21st century
- ISBN
- 9781771600606
- Accession Number
- P2015-01-20
- tbd
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountain And Mining Transit
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.44.1015
- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal; glass; fibre; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 104.44.1015
- Description
- Gurley M&M (mountain and mining) transit. Original wooden box contains blued and brass instrument, field tools, sun shade fitting, ground cloth, plumb bob, etc. Paper labels inside lid of box.
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- Title
- Mountain And Mining Transit
- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal; glass; fibre; paper
- Dimensions
- 32.0 x 25.0 cm
- Description
- Gurley M&M (mountain and mining) transit. Original wooden box contains blued and brass instrument, field tools, sun shade fitting, ground cloth, plumb bob, etc. Paper labels inside lid of box.
- Subject
- photography
- Vaux family
- surveying
- Credit
- Gift of Hugh J. McCauley, Bryn Mawr, USA, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 104.44.1015
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- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.44.1018
- Description
- Large wooden tripod for use with transit (104.44.1015). Varnished wood with collapsing (telescoping) three legs with brass leg points and thumb screws for leg adjustments. The top bezel of threaded brass has a round wooden cover cap. Brass leg brackets are stamped: “W. & L.E. GURLEY, TROY, N.Y.”
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- Title
- Tripod
- Date
- 1870 – 1900
- Material
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- 93.0 x 9.0 cm
- Description
- Large wooden tripod for use with transit (104.44.1015). Varnished wood with collapsing (telescoping) three legs with brass leg points and thumb screws for leg adjustments. The top bezel of threaded brass has a round wooden cover cap. Brass leg brackets are stamped: “W. & L.E. GURLEY, TROY, N.Y.”
- Subject
- photography
- Vaux family
- surveying
- Credit
- Gift of Hugh J. McCauley, Bryn Mawr, USA, 1999
- Catalogue Number
- 104.44.1018
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