topic:"Women" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Pertains to the Rockies Repeat Project which involves a group of women travelling to specific locations and re-creating the paintings of Peter Whyte and Catharine Robb Whyte with the end result of creating a documentary, exhibition and digital storytelling capsule

Notes: In Canada's History, Vol. 101, No.2 (April-May)

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online

Websites

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/in-this-issue/april-may-2021

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Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 Sk3r

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: 356 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Photography; Women; History-Canada; Travel

Abstract: As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher

Contents: The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940

ISBN: 9780774867054

Accession Number: 2022.09

Call Number: 08.1 Sk3r

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

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Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer : women wilderness photography

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Call Number: 06.4 sk3s

Author: Skidmore, Colleen

Responsibility: Colleen Skidmore

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: xi, 360 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 26 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mary Schaffer; Photography; Women; Bibliography; History

Abstract: "Mary Scha¨ffer was a photographer, writer, and cartographer from Philadelphia, well known for her work in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the twentieth century. Colleen Skidmore's engrossing study asks new questions, tells new stories, and introduces women and men with whom Scha¨ffer interacted and collaborated. It argues for new ways of thinking about the significance and impact of Scha¨ffer's work on historical and contemporary conceptions of women's experiences in histories and societies in which gender is fundamental to the distribution of power. Scholars and readers of women's photography and writing histories, as well as wilderness and mountain studies, will make new discoveries in Searching for Mary Scha¨ffer."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Author's notes on names; She Who Coloured Slides; Philadelphia, Paris and the Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1889-1903; The Rocky Mountains of Canada, 1904-1906; Maligne Lake, 1907-1911; Japan, 1908-1909, and Banff, 1909-1939; Epilogue

Notes: Signed by Colleen Skidmore - dated 09/17

ISBN: 978-1-77212-298-5

Accession Number: 2019.16

Call Number: 06.4 sk3s

Collection: Archives Library

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The West and beyond : new perspectives on an imagined region

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2010

Author: Carter, Sarah

Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press

Call Number: 08.2 C24w

Author: Carter, Sarah

Responsibility: [edited by] Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, Peter Fortna

Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: xxv, 435 p. : ill., map, ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: The West unbound: social and cultural studies

Subjects: Biography; Ethnic groups; First Nations; Glenbow Museum; Inuit; Medicine; Photography; Politics; Tourism; Women

Notes: Based on papers presented at the conference: The West and Beyond : Historians Past, Present and Future, held at the University of Alberta, 19-21 June, 2008. --Includes bibliographical references and index Partial contents: Cree intellectual traditions in history / Winona Wheeler, pp. 47-61; Visual space race and history in the North: photographic narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie River Basin / Matt Dyce and James Opp, pp.65-93. - Pertains to photographers Charles W. Mathers and Ernest Brown; The kaleidoscope of madness: perceptions of insanity in British Columbia aboriginal populations, 1872-1950 / Kathryn McKay, pp.94-111; The expectations of a queen: identity and race politics in the Calgary Stampede / Susan L. Joudrey, pp.153-155. - Pertains to controversy regarding 1954 Stampede Queen Evelyn Eagle Speaker known in the competition as "Princess Wapiti", pp.133-155 The Banff photographic exchange: albums, youth, skiing and memory making in the 1920s / Lauren Wheeler, pp.34-374. -- Pertains to photograph albums of Fulton Dunsmore, Cyril Paris, Peter Whyte and Fern Brewster Eric Harvie: without and within Robert Kroetsch's Alibi / Robyn Read, pp. 375-397

ISBN: 9781897425800

Accession Number: 8053

Call Number: 08.2 C24w

Collection: Archives Library

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