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Collected materials, commercial postcards
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54600
- Part Of
- Kidney family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 41 commercial postcards, mostly produced in Banff by Byron Harmon. Content pertains to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; sports including snowshoeing, hiking, curling and boating; landscapes nd mountain views; multiple hotels in and near Banff [the Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake L…
- Date Range
- [ca. 1905 - ca. 1910]
- 1912
- 1915
- [ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1960]
- Reference Code
- V324 / VI / PG - 1 to 41
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Part Of
- Kidney family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M74 / V324
- Series
- V324 / VI : Collected materials
- Sous-Fonds
- V324
- Accession Number
- 2016.8581
- Reference Code
- V324 / VI / PG - 1 to 41
- GMD
- Postcard
- Responsibility
- Produced by Byron Harmon, Canadian Postcard Co. Ltd., Valentine - Black Co. Ltd, G & W Fear Photographers, Dexter Press Inc.
- Date Range
- [ca. 1905 - ca. 1910]
- 1912
- 1915
- [ca. 1920]
- [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]
- [ca. 1960]
- Physical Description
- 41 postcards : b&w and col. ; 10 x 14.5 cm and 9 x 14 cm
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 41 commercial postcards, mostly produced in Banff by Byron Harmon. Content pertains to Banff and the Canadian Rockies; sports including snowshoeing, hiking, curling and boating; landscapes nd mountain views; multiple hotels in and near Banff [the Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise, Cascade Hotel and Mount Royal Hotel]; Banff's fish hatchery; hoodoo rock formations; animals at the Banff Zoo including bears and buffalo, and other local wildlife; the Cave and Basin; a military base camp in Petawawa, Ontario where Forest Kidney was stationed in World War I; and the Bank of Commerce building in Toronto.
- Notes
- Some dates are estimates provided by the Processing Archivist
- Name Access
- Harmon, Byron
- Kidney, Forest H. (Pop)
- Subject Access
- Mountain
- Hiking
- Sports
- Winter sports
- Curling
- Snowshoes and snowshoeing
- Hotel
- Banff Spring Hotel
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Cascade Hotel
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Swimming
- Hot Springs
- Landscapes
- Boats
- Geological formation
- Animals
- Buffalo
- Bear
- Train
- Travel
- World War I
- Military
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Cave and Basin
- Robson Glacier
- Bankhead
- Lake Louise
- British Columbia
- Field
- Bow River
- Castle Mountain
- Mount Rundle
- France
- Arras
- Ontario
- Petawawa
- Toronto
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- One item with adhesive stains on back has been placed in mylar to protect adjacent items
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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George Mandryk collected photographs - File 2 of 2
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54995
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 64 prints pertaining to members of the Young family and their travels in Egypt, ca. 1915-1916. Content pertains to landmarks and views of Cairo, Egypt, including local individuals and families; Ruben and Clarence Young and Fred Carter, as well as numerous unnamed individuals; and c…
- Date Range
- 1915-1916
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 538 to 601
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
- Photograph print
- Postcard
- Part Of
- Luxton family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- LUX
- Series
- LUX / I / E : Collected material
- Sous-Fonds
- LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds
- Sub-Series
- LUX / I / E4 : Photographs
- Accession Number
- LUX
- Reference Code
- LUX / I / E4 / PA - 538 to 601
- Date Range
- 1915-1916
- Physical Description
- 64 photographs : b&w prints and postcards ; 9 x 14 cm or smaller
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 64 prints pertaining to members of the Young family and their travels in Egypt, ca. 1915-1916. Content pertains to landmarks and views of Cairo, Egypt, including local individuals and families; Ruben and Clarence Young and Fred Carter, as well as numerous unnamed individuals; and churches [including St. Martin’s Church and Canterbury Cathedral] and boarding schools in Egypt and England.
- Notes
- Original annotations on back of numerous photographs are partially or mostly missing due to physical cropping of the items.
- Name Access
- Young, Clarence
- Young, Ruben
- Carter, Fred
- Subject Access
- Children
- Community life
- Communities
- Travel
- Tourism
- Businesses
- Family and personal life
- Military
- World War I
- Sports
- Art
- Education
- Churches
- School
- Religions
- Ship
- Boats
- Transportation
- Geographic Access
- Egypt
- Cairo
- England
- Canterbury
- Language
- English
- Category
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Education
- Sports, recreation and leisure
- Transportation
- Military
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Content Details
- Children, community life, communities, travel, tourism, businesses, family and personal life, military, World War I, sports, art, education, school, churches, religion, ships, boats, transportation
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Letters to Mother [June - December 1944]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7464
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 80 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 3 to December 31, 1944. Topics include day to day life, Catharine travelling to and from Calgary to meet Pete on weekends [sometimes staying in Calgary, sometimes coming back to Banff], news pertai…
- Date Range
- 1944
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 118
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
, but it will taire
a painter to do it with his high ladders. and also
after the war when people will maybe have
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- 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 / 118
- Date Range
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 1.7 cm of textual records (106 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 80 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from June 3 to December 31, 1944. Topics include day to day life, Catharine travelling to and from Calgary to meet Pete on weekends [sometimes staying in Calgary, sometimes coming back to Banff], news pertaining to the war [D-Day, the liberation of Rome, the death of Mussolini], Pete's work and movements as part of the RCAF, weather, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross, painting, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, cleaning and household chores, gardening and yardwork, wildlife, Banff events, events and people in Concord, the Calgary Stampede, going to the movies, train travel between Banff and Calgary, various holidays [both Canadian and American], the filming of a Lassie movie in Banff National Park in September, going to Ottawa when Pete is reassigned to Air Force Headquarters in October [Catharine goes with him], Catharine going to Concord for November and then returning to Ottawa, Pete and Catharine returning to Banff/Calgary to begin Pete's discharge, and Christmas/New Years Eve parties and activities. Also includes postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are typed and hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. Some letters written on hotel, Canadian Pacific Railway, and RCAF letterhead. 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.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Phil
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- White, Annie
- Morant, Nicholas (Nick)
- Morant, Willie
- Whyte, Jon
- White, Clifford
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- Whyte, Barbara
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Stockand, Cameron
- Brewster, Fern
- Strom, Erling
- Harmon, Lloyd
- Harmon, Eileen
- Jackson, A. Y.
- McLean, George
- Walking Buffalo (George McLean)
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Paris, Cyril
- Paris, Mary
- Ward, Sam
- Ward, Louise (Cis)
- Kerr, Jasper
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Birds
- Bird watching
- Birthday
- Books
- Businesses
- Calgary Stampede
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Deer
- Family
- Family and personal life
- First Nations
- Funeral
- Gardening
- Hockey
- Home
- Hospital
- Indigenous Peoples
- Lake Louise
- Leisure
- Literature
- Lord Elgin Hotel
- Moose
- Mountain
- Painting
- Paliser Hotel Calgary
- Paris Tea Room
- Personal and Family Life
- Post Office
- Red Cross
- Royal Canadian Airforce
- RCAF
- Scenery
- Stoney Nakoda
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- Upper Hot Springs
- War
- War Artists
- Weather
- Weddings
- Wildlife
- Winter
- Winter sports
- World War II
- WWII
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- McLeod
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Ottawa
- Ontario
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Locate the rest of 118-53.
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Letters to Mother [September - December 1942]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions7460
- Part Of
- Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to th…
- Date Range
- 1942
- Reference Code
- M36 / I / A / 2b / i / 114
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Postcard
- Private record
bad with a ·,;orld at war to use the
mails just to give us the pleasure of sending something
1 image
1 Electronic Resource
- 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 / 114
- Date Range
- 1942
- Physical Description
- 1.2 cm of textual records (56 pages ; 21.4 x 27.5 cm or smaller)
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 50 letters written by Catharine Robb Whyte to her mother, Edith Morse Robb from September 2 to December 31, 1942. Topics include day to day life, weather, cleaning and household chorse, a 3-day trip to the Columbia Icefields to paint/sketch in early September, news pertaining to the war, matters pertaining to the store and apartments on Banff Ave, radio programs [including operas, news, and sports], visits from friends, updates on war-time rations [mostly on food items and gasoline/coal], day trips around Banff National Park to sketch/paint [mostly to Moraine Lake, Lake Louise, and Lake Minnewanka], going to the movies, wildlife, books Catharine and Edith are reading, events and people in Concord [including Russel's activities and promotions in the US Army], various holidays [both Canadian and American], making frames, Catharine's involvement with the Red Cross [including first aid training], Pete being hired by Sir Norman Watson to create letterhead and a Christmas card for Mount Temple Chalet, skiing, slide making and presentations, errand trips to Calgary [mostly to see the dentist], and Christmas activites/parties. Also includes postcards.
- Notes
- Please note: language pertaining to Indigenous Peoplesand Japanese people used throughout is outdated and may be offensive. Letters are mostly typed, some hand-written. Many typed letters have hand-written notes and post scripts added throughout. 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.
- Name Access
- Whyte, Catharine
- Whyte, Peter
- Robb, Edith Morse
- Moore, Pearl
- Moore, Edmee
- Moore, Phil
- Simpson, Jimmy, Sr.
- Simpson, Billie
- Simpson, Jimmy, Jr.
- White, Annie
- White, Jack (Dave White, Jr.)
- White, Bubby
- Whyte, Dorothy
- Stockand, Cameron
- Stockand, Lila (White)
- Ward, Sam
- Ward, Louise (Cis)
- Brewster, Fern
- Brewster, Jack Walker
- Link, George K. K. (Tommy)
- Link, Adeline
- Campbell, Gray
- Campbell, Eleanor
- Watson, Sir Norman
- Rummel, Elizabeth
- Rummel, Lizzie
- Rungius, Carl
- Noble, George
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Animals
- Art
- Artists
- Banff
- Birds
- Bird watching
- Birthday
- Books
- Bow Lake
- Businesses
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Children
- Christmas
- Columbia Icefield
- Columbia Icefield Chalet
- Community events
- Community life
- Correspondence
- Family
- Family and personal life
- Films and film making
- First Nations
- Home
- Hospital
- Indigenous Peoples
- Leisure
- Literature
- Mountain
- Mount Royal Hotel
- Mount Temple Chalet
- Norquay Ski Hill
- Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
- Painting
- Personal and Family Life
- Photography
- Post Office
- Red Cross
- Royal Canadian Airforce
- RCAF
- Scenery
- Skiing
- Ski areas
- Trains
- Transportation
- Travel
- War
- Weather
- Wildlife
- Winter
- Winter sports
- World War II
- WWII
- Geographic Access
- Banff
- Lake Louise
- Bow Lake
- Icefield Parkway
- Banff National Park
- Calgary
- Alberta
- Concord
- Massachusetts
- Canada
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Robb Whyte, Catharine
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Publications, correspondence, events
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions54506
- Part Of
- Kidney family fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a published guidebook for ice hockey, three menus/programmes for events in Banff, three postcards, three pages of loose poetry, and news clippings/pages from newspapers. Content pertains to a community Christmas dinner event at the King Edward Hotel in Banff; loose poetry, handwrit…
- Date Range
- 1888
- 1898
- 1906
- [ca. 1910]
- 1911
- 1914 - 1916
- [ca. 1915 - ca. 1920]
- Reference Code
- M74 / IV / A / 1
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Private record
- Published record
- Postcard
- Part Of
- Kidney family fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M74 / V324
- Series
- M74 / IV : Family, friends and community records
- Sous-Fonds
- M74
- Sub-Series
- M74 / IV / A : 1886 - 1920
- Accession Number
- 3109
- 2016.8581
- Reference Code
- M74 / IV / A / 1
- Date Range
- 1888
- 1898
- 1906
- [ca. 1910]
- 1911
- 1914 - 1916
- [ca. 1915 - ca. 1920]
- Physical Description
- 1.5 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- Frederick Albert Woodworth (August 8, 1895 - April 16, 1916) was the fifth child of eleven, born to parents Elizabeth and Benjamin Woodworth in the town of Banff. Fred Woodworth worked as an electrician in the mines at Bankhead prior to joining the war effort in February 1915. Fred was shot by enemy fire on April 16, 1916 and is now buried in Ypres, Belgium. Fred has a second memorial located in the Woodworth family section of the Banff Town Cemetery.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a published guidebook for ice hockey, three menus/programmes for events in Banff, three postcards, three pages of loose poetry, and news clippings/pages from newspapers. Content pertains to a community Christmas dinner event at the King Edward Hotel in Banff; loose poetry, handwritten; postcards sent to Benjamin Sr., Maud and Ethel Woodworth, between 1906 and ca. 1915; a copy of the newsletter "Trench Echo" from the 27th Battalion in Winnipeg from 1915; a dinner banquet menu/programme for the 56th Overseas Battalion dated 1916; a news clipping announcing the marriage of Ted and Minnie Davidson, ca. 1915; two pages of a June 7, 1888 publication of the "National Park Life" newspaper; an invitation to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Ladies Auxiliay Annual Ball 1914; and a news clipping of a memorial article for Frederick Woodworth who was killed in action during World War I.
- Notes
- One page of a two-page handwritten poem is signed "E M W" [likely "Ella Maud Woodworth"].
- Name Access
- Brett, Reginald H. (Harry)
- Tuthill, J. A.
- Woodworth, Benjamin Frederick
- Brett, Robert G.
- Woodworth, Fred
- Woodworth, Maude
- Subject Access
- Sports
- Winter sports
- Hockey
- Community events
- Hotels
- Travel
- Family and personal life
- Cascade Lodge No. 5
- Military
- World War I
- National parks and reserves
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Calgary
- Manitoba
- Winnipeg
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Fragile newspaper and loose pages encased in mylar or acid free paper for protection, use caution when handling
- Category
- Family and personal life
- Military
- Biographical Source Notes
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12326261/frederick-albert-woodworth
- https://albertaonrecord.ca/woodworth-family-fonds
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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